Stephen Hawking Quotes

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

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

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

It's funny because it's funny.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

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

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

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.

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

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

I like humor.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

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 think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

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.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.