Explaining Quote by Betty White

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny.

— Rachel Dratch

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

— Mark Twain

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's…

— Will Smith

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just…

— Jennifer Carpenter

I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that…

— Ken Jeong

I think people who work in comedy and humor are hesitant to analyze it too much, because you feel like if you take it…

— Matt Groening

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for…

— Jackie Mason

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

— Tina Fey

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

If you're trying to make something funny, and it doesn't feel like you're always getting something, it doesn't have quite a lot of joy.

— Ty Burrell

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

— E. B. White