Quotes About Humor

My father was a master of the cutting insult.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

My goal is really to just make people laugh with integrity, like, with something that I still find funny.

I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well.

We need more intellect and humor back on television, instead of the lowest common denominator of comedy - like the fart joke!

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.

I love a guy who knows who he is, can make me laugh, and challenges me intellectually.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

I want intelligence in my wife, but not too much she might see through me.

You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

I really like writing heroes who aren't necessarily 'Hollywood handsome.' Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!

In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!

I like intelligent comedies.

'Housefull' is not a 'leave your brains behind' kind of a film. It has a very intelligent screenplay.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

And Babita is in a happy space by herself. She's not got married again and nor does she intend to, neither do I. She continues to be my wife and I continue to be her incorrigible, horrible husband. So be it!

I don't know how to troll people, but there are many out there talking with that intent. I just write something funny that would make people laugh.

If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.

I've never sat down with the intent of trying to shock or anything like that; it just so happens that the sense of humour I enjoyed watching as a kid is the type of humour I try to emulate as an adult. It's not a decision. It might sound a bit wanky, but it's the truth.