Will Cuppy Quotes

Humor is reason gone mad.

Who did you pass on the road?" the King went on, holding out his hand to the Messenger for some more hay. "Nobody," said the Messenger. "Quite right," said the King; "this young lady saw him too. So of course Nobody walks slower than you." "I do my best," the Messenger said in a sullen tone. "I'm sure nobody walks much faster than I do!" "He can't do that," said the King, "or else he'd have been here first.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

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

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

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

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.

I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared.

The doctor says to the patient, "Take your clothes off and stick your tongue out the window". "What will that do" asks the patient. The doctor says "I'm mad at my neighbor!".

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.