Art Buchwald Quotes

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

You gotta keep the funny intact.

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often I find Christians - but not just Christians, (any) people who have a certain core belief of things - don't like to have fun made of them at all.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

I like humor.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

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

Gags die, humor doesn't.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

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.

Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

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.

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

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

I actually don't have a lot of faith in comedy.

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

I'm a sucker for a good sense of humor.

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

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

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!