Quotes About Humor

A few months ago, a friend emailed to simply ask, 'Do you get a piece of this?' The message included a link to a site selling T-shirts emblazoned with 'Directed by Robert B. Weide.' My wife soon ordered two.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

If we were all sitting around as different races and as different religions, if you were a real friend of these people, you would bust on them all.

I was really enjoying one of the screenings of 'Beautiful Creatures' and there was this little 14-year-old boy sitting next to me in the screening and I was laughing at all the jokes and I just felt really judged. I had to keep it down a bit. It's a bit embarrassing.

Sometimes I'll be sitting with my friends; I'll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in me as a human being. A lot of mannerism, humor, mischievousness, my innocence. So I don't know if I bring him home so much as I bring myself to him at work.

I was being laughed at. I hated it, so I made an adjustment to control the situation. All comics learn that.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

If I was married to a man, and I had the same life situation that I have, it's the perfect recipe for a sitcom.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

I don't have any favourites, but I like situational comedies, not forced ones.

I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.

I want to try something on situational comedy.

'Band Vaaje' is all-in-all a comedy film. But all comic scenes are situational. The jokes are not just for the sake of punches. The film has proper story which we are sure that audiences will love.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

One of the greatest punsters of all time, Peter Serafinowicz, is a good friend of mine, and I've been in situations more than once where people have been exhausted hanging around with him.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.