Subject: Family (Page 6)

I get on very well with my parents, give or take my mother.

English comedian & actor

It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins.

Giving away baby clothes and nursery furniture is a major cause of pregnancy.

novelist & travel writer

If you don’t believe in ghosts, you’ve never been to a family reunion.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

To be a successful father, there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

(1899 – 1961) author & journalist

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

All the men in my family are bald, and all the women are hunchbacked – and they don’t know we’re bald.

comedian

Enough is never enough.

I’d like to have a kid, but I’m not sure I’m ready to spend ten years of my life constantly asking someone where his shoes are.

I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.

(1956 – ) American comedian

My mother could make anybody feel guilty – she used to get letters of apology from people she didn’t even know.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

We have a beautiful little girl who we named after my mom; in fact Passive Aggressive Psycho turns five tomorrow.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

When Mel told his Jewish mother he was marrying an Italian girl, she said: ‘Bring her over; I’ll be in the kitchen—with my head in the oven.‘

(1931 – 2005) American actor

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake; he told me, “Wait til it gets warmer.”

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

My dad, kind of bloke could read out a telephone directory and It’d be funny…to be fair, he used to do it with his cock out.

(1968 – ) English comedian & actor

No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

1. Giving away baby clothes and furniture is a major cause of pregnancy. 2. Always be backlit. 3. Sit down whenever possible.

I dedicate this show to my dad who was a roofer… so dad, if you’re up there…

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer