Quotes About Humor

I want really badly to just be funny in a movie but be close to myself.

It's fun to just be an awful human being.

I've had people tell me that I should just be sad and not joke around on Twitter, but they don't understand that joking and being deeply sad are very close to each other. I'll have a horrible memory that I find hysterical one day, and the next day I'll cry about it.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

I think the way comedy is represented on screen is it's either all fart jokes - and it's just laughter for the sake of laughter - or it's one of those things where it's just kind of very preachy, very heavy-handed.

Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.

I'm not intentionally dirty. It just kind of happens. It's not like I'm a shock comic who's looking to walk people.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

I'm just a comedian. I don't have all the answers. But I'm not just looking for them online. I'm looking around me.

The funniest guy I've ever worked with - it's just one of those things, again, where we look at each other and just laugh - is Jimmy Byrnes from 'Wiseguy.' Jimmy - we can't be in the same room together. He knows he can make me laugh just by looking at me.

I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily.

I was a huge fan of 'Arrested Development,' and there's just something it tickles in me and it's bright and it's hilarious.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

I'm not really trying to be a stand-up comedian. I have a huge amount of respect for the guys who do it. That's their livelihood. That's their job. It's just something that I enjoy.

We never intended to be comedic directors; it was just something we fell into.

I grew up in a household where we watched a lot of comedy. It's just something I've always enjoyed.

We love to make people laugh - it's just something we do.

I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I've always liked bad behavior, I'm a fan of bad behavior, and I don't think you have to justify bad behavior.

I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

I think Kanye West is a hilarious writer.

I always make fun of Kanye West.