Quotes About Humor

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Without sounding pretentious, if you get the emotional truth right, then you're set. Then the funny stuff you can pile on as much or as little as you want.

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.

Everyone has seen the serious side of myself and sometimes I need to take a chill pill and have a good laugh. That's who I am as a person.

At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

We're more effective than birth control pills.

Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

I remember on the pilot of 'Will and Grace' some executives from NBC saying to me, 'There are too many gay jokes.' I said, 'If not on this show, then what show?'

I remember talking to comedian Jimmy Pardo about his experience waiting to hear about his own pilot, and we both agreed on one thing: When you can't control your showbiz fate, you can at least control the amount of ice cream you're eating. And if you're like us, it was a lot.

I like the idea of sort of being able to stick a pin in something and deflate it with humor and just get a laugh, otherwise we'll cry.

I find it funny that I'm a pin-up.

I played myself in an Aziz Ansari comedy, and that was funny to see how they saw me... flowing scarves and a flourish of pink! Eek!

I met an internationally esteemed writer at a literary party being given in her honor. She was wearing a beautiful pink, flouncy, frilly dress. I complimented her on it. She said, 'Ach, it's my nightgown. I couldn't decide what else to wear.'

If you call making people smile with 'The Pink Panther,' then I made a contribution.

It's very difficult to be funny musically. I think I achieved It with 'The Pink Panther.'

Well, I love Pink Floyd, so I wouldn't be offended by it. I only intentionally robbed them three or four times.

It is difficult to pinpoint my favorite comedies.

I feel I don't get credit enough for it, the pioneering I did in comedy.

If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

For me, the comedies that truly work are the ones that are grounded in some way. If it's all heightened, it's really hard. It's a little slippery. It's hard to get purchase on the side of the wall.

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.

Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'