Quotes About Humor

If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to come from a place of truth, and I love that - I love nothing more than getting very serious about my comedy.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish.

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

I've just never been a person that was political or religiously savvy. Except for the fact that I was born Jewish. That gives me 10 circumcision jokes.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

If you're a comedian, you can only really write jokes for about an hour a day, so you've got a lot of time to fill.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

I love my jokes.

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.

Comedy has bits, has jokes, has stories, and it has characters.

Betty White jokes are just not for me.

I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.

Fart jokes still work for me.

Bald isn't like being ethnic or disabled. Everyone can and will make jokes about it and expect you to laugh good-naturedly, which you will.

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh.

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

I know for myself, every now and again on HBO, they'll show some of the young comedian specials from the '80s and early '90s, and it's just fascinating to watch those comedians - some of whom are people that are world-famous, like Chris Rock or Judd Apatow - to see the jokes that people had, but also, the way everything looked.

Every comedian feels out an audience. As you're telling jokes, if they're not laughing at this, you change the subject.

When I write 'Beetle Bailey,' I can always do jokes about him being lazy, and everyone gets it.