Quotes About Humor

I think my comedy is about finding the good in bad situations - finding the joy. Why be angry? It doesn't help anything.

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.

I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. But I'm into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there's humor. And if you don't show that, you're not being true to real life.

I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.

It's nice when you are with a guy who can find the humor in touch situations and be comfortable enough in his own skin that he can laugh at himself.

I don't find the characters I've played funny. The characters are actually taking their situations very seriously.

I'm not really crazy about broad comedy. I like very possible, real situations that you might have found yourself in.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

When you're six years old, the word 'poo' is the funniest word on God's earth, but this insults my intelligence.

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.

Improv kind of goes hand in hand with what I do. I was on 'Reno 911!' for six years, and that was a completely improvised show.

The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

When you get to be a certain size as a man, all the shirts end up having giant dogs on them or things like that!