Tom Noddy Quotes

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.

You didn't want to laugh, did you? It wasn't very funny, was it?

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

I have no shame when it comes to making people laugh. I don't care what I look like.

Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.

I love The Onion videos, those are amazing.

Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didn’t have any lungs.

I always seem to be chosen to do very flattering things like the beard comb over or go to the bathroom with the door open on Sex and the City or be the guy people meow at in Super Troopers. It's great for self esteem.

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

Hanging out with comics, all they did was make fun of me.

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

I was always the first one to break. I'll admit it. I couldn't keep a straight face.

The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.