Jon Richardson Quotes

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy.

Comedy is saving me.

I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.

Sometimes I yell at my cancer cells, sometimes I make myself laugh.

I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger and frustration into something more positive than sitting at home being unpleasant.

Sometimes, humor is the only way we get through the day.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours?

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime.

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.