Allison Pearson Quotes

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

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

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.