Quotes About Humor

The thought of Sarah Palin as president gives me acid reflux.

The problem isn't that there's not enough women in panel games. The problem is there's not enough women in comedy in general.

I'll go on panel shows looking like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards.

There aren't many opportunities to be a comedian on TV anymore, it's a lot of panel shows. You don't get much stand-up.

Many years ago, I was a young and, dare I say it, very hot new comedian. Maybe even the hottest of all if the now defunct Perrier panel of judges were to be believed.

So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

I was so nervous on the night of my honeymoon, I put my pants to bed, and I hung over a chair.

I don't exactly fit well in leather pants, so I don't rock that look. I lost my hair a long time ago, so no hair-metal look, either. I had hair down to my belly button at one point, but I think that was the '90s.

I almost always wear a jacket, but I like different jackets. I also like funny pants.

Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous.

I would love to dress like Beyonce: some custom-print, neoprene onesie with no pants.

One time I laughed so hard, I just had to go and change my pantyhose. I lost it. Lost it. At least it wasn't onstage.

If you go on the Internet and type in 'Lee Ryan one liners,' I think I'm on par with Gandhi.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

Outside certain parameters, I don't consider myself that serious a person.

I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

I don't want a little Oliver/Olivia parasite running about eating my biscuits. My friends, on the other hand, are procreating like humanity depends on it, and it doesn't.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.