Bob Hope Quotes

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

I like to do things that are shocking or challenging for the sake of comedy.

I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.

I wish I had a funny story.

I'll do almost anything for a laugh.

I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

Nothing makes me laugh more than farting.

I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.

I have a very good sense of humour. I love telling jokes, especially on the golf course.

My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement.

George Burns, what a man. He read in the paper that it takes ten dollars a year to support a kid in India. So he sent his kids there.

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

I think if the joke is in good taste - it's a good joke.

Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.

April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.

Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.

There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and then I would just look at her and go "Where are you from originally?" And she would go "Humphhh! C'mon. That's terrible!"