E. B. White Quotes

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

People hate jokes.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

A laugh is a terrible weapon.

Jokes are grievances.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.