Quotes About Humor

For people who have done comedy after a certain point in time, I think there's a base level of, 'O.K., I think I'm decently funny.' But unless you just have some massive ego, I really think you're still fighting against that.

Some people don't have a sense of humor about certain things, and other people do.

I think coming from a big family, it helps you to keep your sense of humor about certain things... even politics.

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

It's really hard to watch Leno. I set his chair on fire.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.

It's really challenging to play comedy.

I just think we need to have a little sense of humor about yourself and just live and learn, take some chances.

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.

A lot of my comedy is to do with being angry, then finding a way to channel that.

I'd hope that when Channel 4 started, 'The Last Leg' was the kind of show it wanted to be putting out. I think they're really proud of it.

Working with Chaplin was a marvelous experience.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

My best characteristic is that I don't take things too seriously. And my worst characteristic is the same one. There are times when my family wants me to take things seriously and I'll be mucking about. So I'm aware it's annoying for everyone else.

I love to play it. I think it's funny. It's always been funny to me. Somebody who's large and in charge but totally wrong-headed.

I love making people laugh and by the way I still do that with the charitable efforts on my part because I believe that people need to laugh.

Prince Charles is so funny. So, so funny.

I've always loved the Marx brothers and Charlie Chaplin.

I want to make the kind of films that Charlie Chaplin did.

I'm a big fan of Charlie Day.

Because I grew up with women, I have a certain amount of charm, and I'm all right to get on with, kind enough, funny enough, blah blah blah.