Quotes About Humor

I like insult comics. Joan Rivers, Dame Edna, people like that.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

The hardest part of my job, daily, is to not laugh while we shoot.

The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.

Although I married a sports-loving jock, I myself am not only not athletic, I am acutely, completely uncoordinated.

The fact is, Joe Isuzu is very successful at selling cars.

I sound like Joe Pesci and Frankenstein had a baby.

I don't believe in jogging. It extends your life - but by exactly the amount of time you spend jogging.

My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John.

John Hughes loved improvisers.

I sort of as a kid was fascinated with all the fat comedians, like John Candy, John Belushi, Benny Hill.

I like Johnny Carson because he doesn't hold anything back when he's going for a laugh. Johnny will do anything, say anything, to get his laugh.

After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

I am a big fan of Johnny Lever.

I'd always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I'd done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to join this improv troupe and it went well and I started performing with them.

I wasn't drawn to comedy: it was drawn to me - from fighting in school to going to jail, then joining the military and getting into Hollywood.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.