Quotes About Humor

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes.

I'd get home at 3:30 A.M. from the bar after my shift ended at 1. I'd write jokes, film it, and then sleep. So I did that for two years.

I don't like long jokes. I like stories rather than setup punchlines.

I always say to people that Zimbabweans are the funniest people in Africa; we even laugh at funerals. And it's true. I mean, there are so many jokes about funerals. There are so many jokes about AIDS. We find ways of coping with pain by laughing at it and by laughing at ourselves.

My goal is to be exactly how I am offstage - although I realize I'm supposed to punctuate it with jokes.

My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I go, 'I did that, too. I don't just do the jokes. I also do the cries.' Jokes and cries, jokes and cries. That's all I'm here for, people.

I'm one of the most insecure people in the world, always have been, and when you're a fat kid, you try to make the fat jokes before other people make them.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.

I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.

Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.

My Instagram got deleted a lot of times. I used to do rough jokes and curse a lot.

I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.

What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect with the characters as well.

I crack jokes all the time. Even when I have a fight, I will make a joke, and people will laugh.

I want to crack jokes about people. That is my right.

I don't let a lot of people know about my dad dying on 9/11. It's not a way to introduce yourself. So I never told anybody, and then I would do jokes about it... and I think people thought I was lying about it. Which would be crazy!

One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell jokes against ourselves - before anyone else gets to do it.

Before, I didn't do celebrity stuff, 'cause Kathy Griffin did that, but now, if you're going to make jokes on Twitter, you have to stay current.

One of the great things about kids is they haven't heard a lot of the old jokes. You can get away with the corny ones.

As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.