Rodney Dangerfield Quotes

Humor is reason gone mad.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Comedy comes from confusion.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

I like really stupid comedies.

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.

Daft Wee Stories' is, as the title says, daft wee stories. I just sort of rattled them out, tried to make them quite funny, with punchlines - they're kind of like sketches.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

In a blackout, a Polish man was stuck on an escalator for two hours. I asked him, "Why didn't you walk down?" He said, "because I was going up!"

I came home, the car was in the dining room. "How did you get the car in here?" "Easy, I took a left at the kitchen."

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.