Joss Whedon Quotes

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful and true. But blurry as it may be, it is nevertheless unmistakable, and sometimes the laughter I hear makes me wince.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

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

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.