Certain Quote by Alan King

Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?

— Paul Lynde

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest…

— Aristotle

Jewish comedians do the best Jewish jokes, and anyone else doing that, they don't have a right to, because they're not coming from that…

— Simon Pegg

I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.

— Jim Gaffigan

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because…

— Paul Simon

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

— Robyn Hitchcock

What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz.

— Bob Saget

I think cynicism often disguises itself as humour.

— Michka Assayas

We are targeted when humor is not taken in the right spirit, but that's a part and parcel of this profession.

— Kiku Sharda

I think comedians start off as pranksters or something.

— Kyle Dunnigan