Frank Muir Quotes

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.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

The best bloggers have tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

I like humor.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

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

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

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

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

We have a curious relationship with 'funny' in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context.

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

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.