Business Quote by Wesley Morris

“But interviews with [Margaret Dumont] reveal her to have been a perceptive and talented comic actress. “Many a comedian’s lines have been lost on…

— Eve Golden

Funny comes in different levels. Like not looking seasoned, or not looking prepared, the way that an actual comic should look, becomes funny.

— Deon Cole

“Do you practice the laugh, or is it a natural talent? Naw, I’m betting you practice.” Jean-Claude’s face twisted. I couldn’t decide if he…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Preacher Henry Ward Beecher said, “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It is jolted by every pebble…

— Ted Cunningham

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

— Lorrie Moore

I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the…

— Charles Stross

“When I was a young and aspiring speaker, I sought mentorship from a man who had been a Dale Carnegie trainer for decades. Eagerly…

— Susan C. Young

If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene.

— Bill Burr

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

— Nick Kroll

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

— Umberto Eco

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

— James Thurber

The whole time I was writing, I had to fight my normal inclination to be funny, to sort of patch humor in, in order…

— Joshua Ferris