Storm Jameson Quotes

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

My only goal is to make you laugh, not tell you the truth.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

It's a mystery to me what makes people laugh.

Humor is the ultimate truth. If it’s not true, the joke is not funny.

Comedians in general make their living calling liars on their lies.

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.