Quotes about Humor

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

My husband wasn't listening when the doctor asked for "a urine, stool, and semen sample" . . . so I just told him they wanted his shorts.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from.

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.

I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

Basically, I don't like to tweet stuff about my life. I only like to tweet jokes.

I don't have to change anything. I think that's the secret to comedy. You want to be universal and appeal to everyone.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.