Quotes About Humor

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

In terms of our show, there are four different personalities on 'Impractical Jokers.' I'm way darker than the other guys. A lot of stuff I do comes from being a little more of a downer than the other guys.

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

I love being a mum. Sophia is so funny and has a great personality.

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.

When you're the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.

As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

I write all the time. Some of them are very personalized things. Some of them are sarcastic looks at life.

I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She's like a dork, personally. She's just really, really fun.

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

Kapil Sharma is one of the most creative persons that we have in our industry.

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.

I was a heathen Jewess with no bat mitzvah. Only the neurosis, the brown hair, and the self-deprecating humor. But being one of the only Jewish kids in my WASPy hometown definitely informed my perspective on the humor of being an outsider.

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

A lot of people do comedy about India, but they're not from India. It's a Kwik-E-Mart perspective. I want to provide a genuine view and maybe one on how we see the West.

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

The more women sit down and write something in a woman's voice for a woman, they more you'll see women in comedy because gender doesn't define sense of humor. Imagination and intelligence and perspective do.

That's what all of us, as writers, actors and comedians, set out to do - shine a light on new perspectives.

Just telling the facts are no longer enough. You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting, and funny. Just telling people things isn't enough anymore.