Quotes About Humor

Let's face it: most jerks trying to affect an ascot look like Thurston Howell III.

Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.

What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis.

Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.

I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about.

I look at Seinfeld - he looks like he's having fun. He's just enjoying being Jerry Seinfeld, you know, on 'Seinfeld.'

Jerry Trainor is one of the funniest people on the planet.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.

Exercise? A Jew doesn't exercise.

No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.

I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.

Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish.

I know a lot about Jewish comedians.

Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

I just think of myself as a comedian, really. I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.

My mother was a Jewish General Patton.

If you think about it, there aren't that many women who are in their 40s, who are Jewish and funny and stage-worthy.