Quotes About Humor

The reality about shooting films is that you can shoot many jokes and decide later which one works. So it's not worth fighting about jokes.

To deliver something deadpan is very difficult; I don't think people know how hard those jokes are.

I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.

I always like to make some jokes, sometimes.

We only ever write jokes that amuse us.

Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.

You could waterboard me for days - for years - and I would still be cracking jokes about how bad Rachel Maddow is.

Knowing what jokes will work is second nature; you just feel it.

I've never sat down and written jokes. I wouldn't know how to.

Now, you can bring up the past, but anybody can bring up the past. Even my daughter brings up the past sometimes. She makes a lot of jokes about the things that I've done.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

Comedians who aren't screenwriters are telling jokes that they themselves think are funny. They're expressing their own view of what they think funny is.

I love making jokes on the Internet.

The hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is significantly easier.

I still like to shock, but the jokes are less sexist. It's just that, at one point in my stories, there was some sense of pride, some enthusiasm, and now I'm just embarrassed by myself.

I do like rude jokes. They're men jokes.

The jokes about how I look have actually made me stronger.

I used to do much shorter jokes a lot more.

All I ever wanted to do was tell jokes for a living.

My dad always jokes that if I ever write an autobiography, which I'm not going to, it'll be called 'It's Tough in the Middle.'

Rob and I both have a problem with taking jokes too far.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

Jokes about my surname aren't a big deal at all. In fact, that's what jokes are meant for - you laugh and then forget about it.

I never feel like it'll be something where like, 'Aha, I've got it. I'm funny for the rest of my life. I don't need to tell jokes anymore. I just am comedy.'