Humorless Quotes

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

Do I get grief for the fact that in communicating, say, about the baboons I'm doing so much anthropomorphizing? One hopes that the parts that are blatantly ridiculous will be perceived as such. I've nonetheless been stunned by some of my more humorless colleagues - to see that they were not capable of recognizing that.

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.

Long jesting was never good.

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

Joy Behar... Is never even funny accidentally.

I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.

I don't think there's anything Craig Ferguson could say that would make me laugh. Ad-libbing is not the same as entertainment.

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.

If I go to a party, I'm not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

Paris answered for him. "Last time he spread the flashing love, Reyes threw up all over his shirt. I never laughed so hard in my life. Lucien, though, has no sense of humor and vowed never to take us again." "I'm surprised you didn't mention the part where you fainted," Lucien said wryly. Strider chortled. "Oh, man. You fainted? What a baby!" "Hey," Paris said, frowning at Lucien. "I told you I hit my head midflash." Lucien

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

With my humor, I end up offending everybody!

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.