The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect.
I like my man to be witty; he needs a sense of humour and needs to be extremely well-mannered.
I think that my ideas of the world are that it’s random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.
I have quite a dry sense of humour. It comes out when I’m feeling nervous.
That’s my family; we have a very British sense of humour, very dry.
My partner of 45 years is Australian, and a big part of her character is that marvellous quality of irony which Aussies possess. I relish their humour and sense of fairness.
The nurses’ job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It’s just a consequence of their environment.
Vulgarity shouldn’t pass off as humour.
For me it’s the funniest show on TV. ‘Benidorm’ is such old-school, ‘Carry On,’ panto humour. It’s so warm.
My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was known for his intelligence, wit, wisdom, a wonderful sense of humour, a great personality, and a genuine goodwill towards all.
Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
Humour is used in struggle and solving difficult things, and I relish that tradition.
Robbie minced into my life and he had the same oddball sense of humour as me. It was love at first laugh.
I thought I had more of a European sense of humour than the average American comic.
I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.
I’ve said before I think the best thing about social media is that it brings people together and the worst thing about social media is that it brings people together. You’re assuming that the people following you know what type of person you are and what type of humour you have.
When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don’t mean – well, maybe I do – laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.
I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it’s a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.
People don’t get my sense of humour.
Politicians don’t laugh very often. That is their problem. Humour is very important in politics and I think the politicians should laugh more to get better results.
Mum and Dad have both got very well-tuned senses of humour.
Every culture loves scatological humour. That’s always a favourite.
The one thing that makes ‘Torchwood’ work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.
Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.
I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
I guess people have a hard time dealing with humour in music. But sometimes life is depressing, and sometimes life is fun, is about just laughing with your friends, and I wanted to express that as well as the darker stuff.
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
From the stage I’ve seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
Rick was a real gentleman. He was very kind and had an amazing sense of humour – he was the funny one in the group, and a very talented musician.
Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it’s the way people stay sane in their daily lives.
I am a grown man who is an entertainer with a specific type of humour and if you don’t like it, that’s okay, I owe you nothing.
Humour allows people to exhale a little.
I like a twisted sense of humour. On ‘A History of Violence,’ David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because… these people can’t tell if you’re joking around, you just can’t have any sense of humour; you really can’t.
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
It is not necessary to have a good sense of humour personally to do comedy well.
You’ve got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it’s all pretty ridiculous, isn’t it?
According as the man is, so must you humour him.
My ideal woman would be someone with both beauty and intelligence. Someone who can hold her own in a conversation, gets along with my family and respects elders, loves children, and have a sense of humour as whacky as mine.
T20 is generally the fun side of cricket. You’ve got to have a sense of humour. Some days you can turn up and get whacked. Next game turn up, bowl the same and you don’t go for many. You have to take it as it comes.
I would love to see an adaptation of ‘Less’ by Andrew Sean Greer. It has all the things I want in a film; love, travel, humour.
I was a bit of a humour black sheep. I would make these jokes full of irony and dark cynicism and that just didn’t work when I was seven, people did not laugh.
I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.
Both my mother’s younger sisters, Padmini and Tejaswini, are actresses. I am extremely close to Teju mausi, as I am quite similar to her. We both are adventurous, spontaneous, childish, impulsive, and a bit silly and have our own strange sense of humour.
The quality of my songs will get through to people. They are good songs. Lyrically, some of them are interesting: there’s stories, a bit of humour. I’m very confident about the music I play, you know.
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one’s own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.
I don’t know, maybe Australian humour isn’t supposed to be funny. It’s as dry as the Sahara, and I think people miss that.
I’ve never sat down with the intent of trying to shock or anything like that; it just so happens that the sense of humour I enjoyed watching as a kid is the type of humour I try to emulate as an adult. It’s not a decision. It might sound a bit wanky, but it’s the truth.
The North East is a tough, working-class area. Its people boast great humour. But for two days every year, when Newcastle and Sunderland play football, it’s absolute chaos. And very nasty. It borders on tribal hatred.
Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.
A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name me any genre, and I can give you a list of artists I adore.
Eric Ashcroft, a gentle, kind, popular man with a wicked sense of humour, was always modest about his wartime exploits, but eventually, with much prompting from his persistent son, he told me of his terrifying experience on D-Day.
There is some humour in ‘Family Values.’ I don’t want everyone to think it’s not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren’t funny at all.
I would love to make a sarcastic film; I am so sarcastic that even my kids are now getting used to my sarcasm. You see it a lot in British comedy because that’s their sense of humour.
No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
Even today, people tell me that the slapstick humour in ‘Friends’ is the most viewed comedy track on television. Siddique knows the art of mixing slapstick with genuine humour.
I remember sitting in front of the British Museum and having a moment – an epiphany, I guess – that I just had to live here. And now that I have grown to understand the British sense of humour here, I love the culture, too.
I think any kind of comic sequence is as easy and as difficult as it is written. So, if it is written well, then it becomes easy. Sometimes you find it difficult because the humour is not coming out.
I have a weird sense of humour. My dad’s the same. We love watching ‘Monty Python’ together.
I once said, ‘Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,’ but that was humour.
Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.
Rahman sir has a sweet sense of humour. He chuckles a lot and is very friendly.
Lavatorial humour is just not my cup of tea. But, having said that, I’m really of the mind that comedy is so subjective and whatever makes you laugh makes you laugh. If it doesn’t make you laugh, don’t watch it.
