Quotes About Humor

People say the seats at sporting events are too small. My response is, 'That's why we're trying to work on the size of your rear end!'

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

All comedians have to use their physicality, so I use my size.

I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.

There's something outrageously funny about the bold-faced lying that's going on, in a general way. Just the blatant denial of facts, whether it's climate change or crowd sizes. Every day, there's another blatant lie. I think there's comedy in there somewhere.

The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

I think it's hilarious at 40 years old to bring out my roller skates from 'Starlight Express.' I find the humor and even the sadness in it hilarious and something to celebrate.

All ages can enjoy a loud crazy man and dancing skeletons.

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

The Internet is a sketch show.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

But I started out as a comedian doing sketch work where you get to write, produce and direct your own stuff.

I was always a big fan of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner's '2000-Year-Old Man' sketch. I think it's one of the biggest influences on the podcast, definitely. You'd never say Carl Reiner was the funniest dude on there, because he's just teeing it up, but he knows what questions to ask to lead to great improv.

When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.

No one will ever be as good as Phil Hartman. He was such an amazing genius, and may be the best sketch performer of all time.

I used to put on sketch shows at boarding school when I was eight. I'm not sure about the material, but it did used to get a laugh.

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'

Stand-up and sketch and improv - that's the most direct contact you can have with somebody, making them laugh. I like that. I like the intimacy.

If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone.

I'll go in a minute to see a sketch show.

I've always wanted to do a sketch show. And they've sort of gone out of fashion for a bit, or they've just stopped doing them for whatever reason.

What I love is getting a new joke, or a premise like a sketch idea or a movie idea. That's the best feeling for a comedian.