Rodney Dangerfield Quotes

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

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 comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

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.

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

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

Comedy comes from confusion.

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.'

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

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

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.