Quotes About Humor

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives.

When you take things too seriously, you get old. You have to be silly. Whenever people say, 'Hey, man, are you ever going to grow up?' That's when you know you're doing things right.

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

Things I say are sometimes silly.

When people take themselves really seriously, I find it silly and amusing.

I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.

People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.

I was always silly in high school. I used to always get in trouble because I was laughing. I've always thought I was funny but never thought I could use it to make money. In 1996, I decided I was going to use my humor to get on TV to make money.

I comment on my friends' things; whatever they post, I post funny posts. I don't post anything that's too sad or mad, or at least not for too long. And I'm usually just a happy person! Silly - people would describe me as silly and crazy and fun.

There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.

Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.

There are a lot of silly projects out there.

We are so aware of how silly our movies are as we're making them.

There's a difference between delivering real funny and just silly funny.

People who know me would not say that, at my core, I'm silly.

'Smart Funny & Black' came about because I felt that black comedians were being considered as only capable of a certain type of comedy - sort of physical, kind of silly - and I felt like we are not a monolith, and our comedy isn't, either.

When I'm joking around, I'll say I'm a pop star, because it's silly.

For a lot of comics who aren't as silly or physical but more intellectual, we get looked at as 'alt comics.' No, I'm still a black comic, and there are black people who want to hear my type of black comedy, but that space hasn't been built out for us.

David Wain's character on 'Bob's Burgers' is really funny and silly and makes me laugh.

The joys of making a comedy are that it feels very playful and silly, and the energy is totally different because they want you to feel free enough to come out with something a bit mad.

I'm a comedian. Comedians are supposed to be jaded, cynical, angry people. But I'm not: I'm a silly, silly fun boy.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.