Quotes About Humor

It is a lot harder to write a good book or a good column in a persuasive way without making fun of someone or ridiculing them.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

I definitely grew up on Garfield. I just loved his pessimism.

I'm not particularly fond of Shoah jokes, yet there is one I cannot forget: Why was Auschwitz an optimistic place? Because all the pessimists were already in New York by then.

I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.

I've had three marriages end in disaster. Lynne knew the score when she married me. It was always just a matter of time before she became the fourth ex-Mrs. Peter Sellers.

I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies.

Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.

Peter Sellers is my great comedy hero.

Peter Jones is hot.

My mum can't watch 'Car Share' - well she does, but she says, 'Peter I can't enjoy it because you're not watching the road.'

I'd like to play a larger-than-life character done straight, like Clouseau. To move away from Dick Emery and towards Peter Sellers.

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

For a long time, I've loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. I was originally a gag manga artist, after all.

I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew.

I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.

There was the phase I went through where I'd put streaks of red food colouring in my fringe as some kind of budget instant hair dye. Fine until it rained and I looked like I'd had a head injury.

It's too bad that there aren't as many light comedies around in the movies as there were when I was making pictures like 'The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.' The boys are just not writing them. Many writers are more serious now than they used to be, and that's showing up in all phases of entertainment.

To be sandwiched between Jane Curtin and Bob Newhart for a couple weeks is phenomenal.