Quotes About Humor

A lot of what I think is funny is usually through some sort of character, or speaking earnestly one second and then saying something obviously joking.

A jolly feel good film with Vadivelu playing the comedian along with Rajni at his humourous best is 'Chandramukhi.'

We're not all Jon Stewart. I know I'm not. I dropped out of college. Why would you come to me for anything that may influence your fact-based perspective? I think that the job of a comic is to be emotionally true.

Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.

I'm a huge Jon Lovitz fan.

I love Jon Stewart.

I think Jonathan Ross is brilliant.

Journalists said they had never seen so many funny women as leads when we did 'Hotwives' - we had a cast of seven very funny women. That doesn't happen.

With some of the journalists, I've known them for years now, and I kind of consider them like my friends, so I always tend to joke around, and some people don't get it.

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.

If you're going to document your own journey, the jokes work better in the first person, just like the stories do.

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

As comedians, if nothing else, we're certainly allowed to make fun of ourselves and our own journeys and our own experiences.

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

Audience laughter, when it's deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.

Well yes I think laughter is joyous, laughter is crucial. I think thats why I love comedy and thats why Im in comedy in the first place.

I sometimes wonder why I talk about Judaism so much in my act, and the reason is that it's such a huge part of who I am, and I only make fun of stuff that I care about.

Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

I could write a whole other book called 'I'm Judging You, America!' I still might.