Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

I love irony.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

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

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

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

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?