Quotes About Humor

I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.

It's difficult to say what attracts one person to another. It's always a combination, isn't it? I've always found people interesting because of the way they think, and a sense of humour is irresistible.

If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

I used to irritate people. I'd give them a hard time, and when it drove them crazy, that was funny to me.

Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.

When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It's the worst.

My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am... I can't win.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

It is what it is, and it's a crazy job - I literally touch letters and wear pretty clothes, and how do you describe that job? It's weird, but I've been doing it for a long time, and I'll be first to make fun of it - I really will - but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in world.

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

I became good friends with Jack Whitehall. I think he's great, such a great dude, and really funny.

My dad, Jack, had a great sense of humour and had a strong impact on me and my humour.

There's nothing less funny than somebody trying to be funny. I loved Jack Dee, then I met him and I became the least funny human to exist because of my desperation to say something amusing.

Jack is really the new breed, a wild-man comedian. America's funnyman.

I think Jack Nicholson in 'Chinatown' is a very funny character, but I would never call that a comedy.

The most comical thing for me, even when I watch movies, is the guy who's so crazy confident about himself, with the mink jacket - to me, that is so funny. I wish I could be like that. As a fighter, I wish I could do that, so I could make people laugh. But I can't; it's not my style.

How could you get angry with Jackie Gleason?

I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

When Huell Howser died, James Adomian had done Huell Howser for years. As crazy as that impression was, James genuinely loved Huell Howser.