Quotes About Humor

I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.

About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.

The laugh track was invented to cue the audience to the jokes and encourage laughter in response. But it has another effect: if you hear people laughing and you're not, you start to question if maybe there's something wrong with you for not getting it.

Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.

There doesn't seem to be a relationship between budget and comedy. In fact, it might be inverse.

A lot of what I say isn't my real thoughts, it's this character, and maybe that's true for a lot of comedians. It's really the inversion of my thoughts.

When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.

I've been doing stand-up for 15 years and I've never even been invited to the Comedy Awards! How mental is that?

I will try anything that doesn't involve a leotard.

You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

I actually think it's against the rules at Vox Media to work there if you've never dropped an iPhone.

I'm dating my iPhone.

'The Office' is clearly the funniest show on TV. But I can't live without watching 'Eureka.' It's my favorite show of all time, and I watch it constantly on my iPod.

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

Whenever I come to Ireland, I end up just bantering with the crowd so the show will just be what it is.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

There's a certain kind of guy, a certain kind of humor, that goes with Irish cops and firemen.

With Irish drama, things are told with humor.

Dublin is really fun, and Irish people are hilarious.

Ironic things are interesting.

I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.

I know it might be kind of ironic, but I like funny films and documentaries.