Quotes About Humor

If you wanted to hear politics, you'd go to Henry Kissinger; you wouldn't go to hear Jackie Mason. The reason I speak about politics is because I know I can get a laugh out of it.

If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.

My knees are ticklish.

If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground.

I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

If we knew what we were doing we wouldn't be entertaining.

I don't want to do a rabidly left-wing show. I think it's much more interesting to turn the knife on yourself.

I have a self-deprecating sense of humor, so I knock myself.

The only person in the world who could knock me out is my anaesthetist.

When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'

Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

Everyone knows the best time to do laundry is later.

A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.

Everyone knows I love a good fart joke!

Gordon Ramsay makes me laugh because he knows that I'm not a chef.

Your country becomes funnier the further you are from it. I remember seeing Boris Johnson on the news when I was in Hong Kong, and he looked so much more ridiculous.

Koreans are hilarious.

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

I liked the first 'Kung Fu Panda.'

I don't think any of us think of ourselves as artists or actors - clowns, we'll accept that label.

I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label - make me laugh. I want to make you think.