John Gordon Sinclair Quotes

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

There's nothing worse than trying to be funny and not being funny.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

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

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

'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

Being funny is everything to me.

I don't just try to be funny.

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

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

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 funny because it's funny.

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

If you like dry humor, Henrik Stenson thinks he's very funny, but I think I'm very funny in a dry sense as well.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

I like humor.

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.

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.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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'm not very funny!

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

Puns are a form of humor with words.