Quotes About Humor

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either!

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

Since there have been men and women, there have been funny women.

Men and women are like cats and dogs. I've learned more about myself from women. My comedy is based on this.

I've built a career on evenly entertaining men and women. And I'm kind of known for not making either side feel bad.

Having a sense of humor about yourself is a sign of mental health.

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.

People always mention that they'd love to see me in a comedy again. Maybe it's time - laughter being the best medicine.

Take my gay-hairdresser routine. You'll let your hairdresser say things to you that you wouldn't let your parents say. My hairdresser will say the funniest things, so I asked him if I could put him in my routine - you know, make fun of him in a good way. He said, 'Oh, mention my name, mention my name!'

If I had a walk-up song in 2019, it would be 'Baby Shark.' It's haunting. It's mesmerizing. It's catchy.

Guys on Team U.S.A. were calling me Iggy just to mess with me. I've been called that since I was a kid. I don't care.

I'm one of those people who laughs everything off. If I mess up, I just say, 'Ha! Totally didn't mean to do that.'

Films with a message just make me laugh.

I'm a funny guy. I want people to laugh. I laugh at myself, I make fun of myself. But at the end of the day everything that I say has a message in it.

The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through.

There's always a message in my comedy.

I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.

My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.

Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of doom or struggle.

Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.

I'm the type of guy that's always having a joke, messing around, but when it comes to the serious stuff, you know, your head's on the game.

In the U.K. and Ireland, crowd-work is a big thing. It shows you how funny someone would be if you met them off-stage. Americans don't care if you're funny off-stage. They want to see the writing; they want to see the work you did.