Agnes Repplier Quotes

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

I never have been able to understand where the humor comes from.

Comedy is subjective, and any joke can be funny.

So much of comedy is feeling comfortable with the point of view coming at you. So I understand it. There's people who I find hilarious now, but the first couple of times I saw 'em, I was like "What is this? I don't get it at all."

If you are watching my films and wondering, am I missing humorous speak because I'm not Korean? Am I missing out? You don't have to worry, because you're only missing probably about a few cents worth out of your ticket price.

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.

I think I'm the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.

Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.

I remember Tucker Toomey was named so because "T's are funny!" And if Garry Marshall says it's funny, by god, it must be so.

I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage? I am all for it.

It's really stupid to defend your own jokes. That is for other people to do if they choose to.

How can there be inaccuracy in comedy?

Comedy is a weird thing. You have to understand, it's the weirdest thing you can do. There's no consensus. It's not like... People say, "I saw Saving Private Ryan, and that scene on the beach is just so moving." I can't imagine anyone who would say "I don't find that moving!" But you can show, whether it's Laurel & Hardy or the Three Stooges or Jiminy Glick In Lalawood, some people are going to look at it and say "That's the funniest thing I've ever seen." Some people will say "I don't get it." Who's right, who's wrong?

I still think that, hopefully, you're not ahead of the jokes, and I think that has value. There is a punchline and it's pointed - and, again, whether you think it's funny or not, that's subjective.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.