Red Buttons Quotes

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

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.

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.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

I'm not very funny!

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.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

A laugh is a terrible weapon.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

For me, humor is everything!

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

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

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

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

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