Henny Youngman Quotes

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

It's funny because it's funny.

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

It's a funny old world.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

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.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.

Comedy comes from confusion.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

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

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

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

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

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

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.