Humour Quotes

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

The journalists have obviously failed to capture my innate magnetism, humour and charisma, and they all need to be fired from their newspapers right away.

We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice - sparingly.

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.