Harvey Korman Quotes

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

There's so much humor in serious things sometimes.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

If possible, be funny.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

It's funny because it's funny.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.

I always gravitate toward the humor in something.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

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.

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