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American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others.

We have a curious relationship with 'funny' in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context.

The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.

If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

The British are so funny.