Serious Humor Quotes

A joke is a very serious thing.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

A German joke is no laughing matter.

True wit has a grave intention.

I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.

By employing a certain sense of humor, you essentially get more serious about things and show conflict more effectively than if you were overly dramatic or only violent because that's a one-way approach that just forces audiences to watch something appalling.

I'm a joker; that's my choice. It's my style. But I care about my life. I care about the game. I care about the people who gave me this opportunity.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer.

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.

There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death of comedy.