Bil Keane Quotes

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

If you like dry humor, Henrik Stenson thinks he's very funny, but I think I'm very funny in a dry sense as well.

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

I'm not very funny!

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

I don't mean to be funny.

For me, humor is everything!

People don't expect me to be as funny as I am.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

We do not take humor seriously enough.