Bojana Novakovic Quotes

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

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.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

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

Laughter crosses boundaries of class and age... Humour is universal.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

Jokes are grievances.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

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