Comedy Quote by Anonymous

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

— Robert Benchley

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

— Mark Twain

Humor is a terrific tool for explaining things, especially when what you're explaining is frightening or dull and complicated.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

— E. B. White

“A sense of humor is a serious business; and it isn't funny, not having one. Watch the humorless closely: the cocked and furtive way…

— Martin Amis

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't…

— Heinrich Boll

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see,…

— Victor Borge

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

— George Saunders

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

— Max Eastman

If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.

— Steve Allen

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

— P. J. O'Rourke