Quotes About Humor

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

My family helps me a lot, and my mum is always picking on me. I have grown used to saying that she is the worst defender I have had to face, but I know she says all that stuff for my own good.

I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles.

No pickup lines! They're the worst. But I love jokes.

I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.

Just be funny. Funny always goes over well, so try to think of something funny to break the ice rather than being weird or using pickup lines.

Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.

My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!

Let's make some funny pictures.

I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.

My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese.

Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody's goal to actually make a funny game.

Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

I've got a wife, two kids, a dog and a mini-van. Isn't that disgusting? We're talking Americana, man. Apple pie on the table and everything.

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.

I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing.

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.

I used to have a potbelly pig named Terrance. He died of obesity.

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.