Humor Effectiveness Quotes

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

Jesus must have had a sense of humor. I like to think of Him as a guy who got people to listen to Him by leaving them laughing and chuckling with one another.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.

It's one thing to make people laugh, but after a certain point, comedy is almost cheap.

I think Trump is terrible for comedy. A lot of people say he is great. He's not. You can't joke a joke.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.

The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.

If you're going to document your own journey, the jokes work better in the first person, just like the stories do.

I feel the life expectancy of a comedian is 30 seconds. If you don't hook an audience in half-a-minute, you're dead.

When a joke works, it works. It can make a point in a really simple way; it can be a great little sound bite to put on television or share on social media. Humor has this incredible power in how we communicate about politics now, in part because there's something natural in the way it's communicated.

I thought some of my earlier cartoons were not exactly great shakes at the time I drew them. Now I see a certain innocence in them. The humor has a kind of purity to it, I guess. And it works better on some level for me now.

Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.

I don't think comedy really does change people's minds; I think you can only get someone who is almost ready to change their mind. You can't change someone from one direction straight into the other, but if you get someone who is considering your view, and you make a good point, there's power in that.

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.