Bob Hope 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.

I love when people overexaggerate. It's so funny to me.

One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.

I came home, the car was in the dining room. "How did you get the car in here?" "Easy, I took a left at the kitchen."

Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone and hospitalized a brick.

If Bill Gates is worth $30 billion then a good haircut must cost $31 billion

I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

I'm ridiculous, I'm ludicrous.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

In a satire, you need foolishness.