Humor Value Quotes

A joke is a very serious thing.

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

There is nothing better than a laugh in life. There just isn't.

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.

Not enough comedy makes you feel something.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

I still think that, hopefully, you're not ahead of the jokes, and I think that has value. There is a punchline and it's pointed - and, again, whether you think it's funny or not, that's subjective.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with.

People would say, "Oh, you say you just do jokes." I don't just do jokes. I do jokes. Jokes are important. They saved my life when I was younger. Hopefully we're making things nicer at the end of the day for people. That's the entire goal, and that's the touchstone and the North Star for the tone.

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.