humor response Quotes

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.

That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality.

If boys say something that's not funny, you don't have to laugh.

The one [The Beverly Hillbillies] flaw in this is that you can't hear the people laughing.

Somebody told me once I wasn't Latin enough, and that made me laugh.

He need not get so angry because the House laughs at him: he ought to be pleased when they only laugh at him.

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

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits are funny and which bits need to be fixed.

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.

Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

I think a lot of comedic actors, on their close-up they can deliver. But when it comes to reacting to other people being funny, that's work in itself.

Sometimes guys'll say to you, 'Have a good one'. I say, 'I already have a good one. Now I'm looking for a longer one'.

Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.

I get a kick out of replying to people on Twitter sometimes if I make a joke.

I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!" "My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow…" "Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.

There's clearly humor that goes too far and humor that is violative, and we are engaged in our humor in a complex call-and-response with one another. I'm telling you a joke to see if you think that it's funny... but if one of us violates some principle or touches on a particularly tender spot of the other, normally we adjust to that and move on.

Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.

I - at the table reads, I break constantly. If something is up there that I'm not expecting, I tend to - I can't help myself; I'll start laughing.

When I watch a comedy that's just hitting you over the head with jokes constantly, some really hit, but if they miss, you're like, 'Eh.'