Colin Firth Quotes

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it's kind of hilarious.

You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

I really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer.

That's my family; we have a very British sense of humour, very dry.

My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.

Where I come from people are very deadpan with a dry humour that I suppose rubbed off on me.

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.

I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making.

I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

I have a very dry sense of humor.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.