Joseph Addison Quotes

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Humor is reason gone mad.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

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

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

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

I love irony.

Ironic things are interesting.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.

It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

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

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 like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Comedy comes from confusion.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

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.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.