Social Humor Quotes

I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.

I keep on repeating something told to me by an American psychologist: "When you are making a joke about someone and you are the only one to laugh, it is not a joke. It is a joke only for yourself." If people are making a joke they have the right to laugh at me but I will ignore them. Ignoring doesn't mean that you don't understand. You understand it so much that you don't want to react.

I'm one of the people who actually laughs at everyone else's jokes!

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

I feel like a lot of the guys who are trying to do political or socially relevant humor just haven't figured out who the enemy is.

I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

Some people, they just don't get a joke.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.

May I suggest a drinking game where everytime I do a ridiculously long awkward blink, someone does a shot of some kind of alcohol?

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

As soon as a roast is announced, I get everybody - family, friends, waitresses, cab drivers - giving me jokes about the person getting roasted. I'm the mouthpiece for the masses.

Just because you're funny doesn't mean you get to be cruel.

I wasn't the class clown. I wasn't that obvious. There would be a circle of guys, and they're watching the class clown. And I'm standing in the back, and I turn to the guy next to me and I say something funny to him, and he starts to laugh. And the guy next to him says, 'What did he say?'

There´s my date, I said. "Fashionably late." Nora (p. 232)

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.

Humor is based on the way a man looks at life's ironies, and being a member of a minority group can certainly be ironic.

The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.

Everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think.

Socially, it is funny. People are annoyed because, really who is a clown?.

People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.

I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.

Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.