Muhammad Ali Quotes

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

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.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Nothing like a great comedy. I love to laugh!

Gags die, humor doesn't.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.