If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.
It's funny because it's funny.
The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.
The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.
For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.
No subject is unsuitable for comedy.
Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Funny is funny.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.
The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.
If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.
I don't really need to be dirty to be 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.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
Kate O'Brien was an Irish novelist and playwright.
