Quotes About Humor

I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.

I'm just trying desperately to hang on to my true friends. Like Jon Voight. We laugh all the time at how stupid we are.

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

I have a true love for the old style of Catskill comic. There's a joy in discovering a bad joke... and then there's the joy of delivering it like, 'Isn't this a hacky joke?'

Often, when people don't do so well in a monologue at UCB, it's because they're racking their brain so hard to be funny that they're just not honest and don't just tell a true story, which is what we want.

Nothing is funnier than a true story told by a bitter old black man.

Can someone's true value really be estimated? Maybe there needs to be an Edmunds.com for people on TV. That would be funny and possibly cruel.

This would seem to be a truism in contemporary American politics: The electorate opts for serious leaders, but almost always men who are able to poke fun at themselves - and the gravitas of their position.

There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.

If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.

If I truly had the courage of my convictions, I would be a full-blown comic novelist.

I am not an educator and I'm not a journalist. I am a comedian. But I do truly believe that the point of comedy is to make the world around one better.

Trump is good for comedy but bad for the world.

Donald Trump is like a practical joke that got out of hand.

We live in a country that elected Trump. Clearly you have a sense of humor.

If Obama was a sonnet, Trump is a limerick. And really, which ones do you enjoy more?

I honestly think that Donald Trump's only adviser is his doorman.

I hear that Donald Trump is watching the Olympics tonight. He's seeing how high the Mexican pole vaulters go.

Let's make Donald Trump explain his hair.

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

I found Leonora Carrington's 'The Hearing Trumpet' really funny.

I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!

I think of Paul Feig as the Scorsese of comedy. He's the best at what he does. I think people just trust everything that he's got to say.