Tongue-In-Cheek Quotes

Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

I love really kitschy bad movies. Showgirls is one of my favorites. I saw House of Versace and died. I'm a big fan of made-for-TV movies because those are instant classics, naturally.

We're weird guys. I don't know if a lot of people get our humor. A lot of people probably think we're jerks. We're real sarcastic. Really ironic and stuff. We mean well, but we joke around probably a lot more than we should.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

I think our Batman had to be fun, light-hearted, funny, tongue-in-cheek... and I think that made kind of an homage to those earlier comic books, where Batman always had a quip or something.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

I have a crazy sense of humor so if someone is just trying to be rude to me, or if you can tell that someone is angry for no reason, I like to entertain them.

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy. You shouldn't try to be funny, but you should try to be as honest as possible. The extreme end of honesty is usually what's funny. That's your job [as an actor]. You just have to let people see it.

To the casual observer, the Dropbox demo video looked like a normal product demonstration, but we put in about a dozen Easter eggs that were tailored for the Digg audience. References to Tay Zonday and 'Chocolate Rain' and allusions to 'Office Space' and 'XKCD.' It was a tongue-in-cheek nod to that crowd, and it kicked off a chain reaction.

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

Sarcasm is like cheap wine - it leaves a terrible aftertaste.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

A lot of the things I say I'm just trying to be funny... I don't really mean everything I say, because I'm not totally that airhead.

It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.