Quotes About Humor

The point with me is that it's always been, even with the stand-up, that the music has to be right. You have to take it seriously. You have to try and play it as faithfully as possible. That way it helps the comedy. Rather than just playing it in a silly way.

What I do with impressions, I try not to be mean-spirited. To me, it's just about being silly.

I'm a very, very silly girl.

I love to be silly as often as possible. I try to maintain a level of that in all that I do.

A lot of the stuff I do is broad, physical, quite silly.

A lot of the stuff that I want to create personally is usually pretty absurd or silly comedy stuff.

I like silly photos of me, looking stupid.

Often it's seen as empowering if you're cleverer than the men, or more aware - then you're giving the woman a great strong role. And that's true to an extent. But when it's a comedy, you want to be as mad and silly and funny as the men.

If comedy can be both - silly and fun but also say something and start a dialogue - that's the most you can ever ask for.

I want to sometimes talk about race and sometimes not talk about race, but mainly just do silly voices and pretend to be like strange people, and having people be like, 'That's fine, we accept that.'

I have grown up a lot over the years and now I can laugh about the silly mistakes I made on TV.

What Paul and I do is not fashionable - it's a load of silly characters mucking about.

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'

Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.

I'm not saying that comedy has to be a certain thing - I'm not trying to define comedy, where it's like, it can only be silly things. But I think part of what makes a comedy is that at least part of the mantra of the show is trying to make people laugh.

I say some silly things now and again.

People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.

Me and the Rock do look a lot alike, and we're a similar build - that was a joke, by the way.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.

Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.

I think my dad has a similar black sense of humour to mine, so perhaps it's just an inherited thing. I've got two little boys now, and I can see it with them as well. I don't know if you learn it off your parents - but my dad used to take me to see certain plays when I was quite young, so maybe that had an effect as well.

I try hard not to repeat myself and not to do material other people are doing. We transcribe every other late-night show to make sure there's no similarity.