Pete Holmes Quotes

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Comedy comes from confusion.

It's funny because it's funny.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

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

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

Funny is when you're serious.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

I love irony.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

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.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.