Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

I have a phrase I say: 'What the damn?' It's my favorite. It just came to me one day.

Let's just let funny people be funny.

Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within.

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.

If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

I do love poop. I can't help it. The heart wants what it wants. I enjoy being clever and pithy and political, but nothing's going to get me like dumb stuff.

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'

I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!

If you're trying to make something funny, and it doesn't feel like you're always getting something, it doesn't have quite a lot of joy.