Quotes About Humor

I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, 'Well, I'm going to be the heavy-metal comedian.'

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

I went out on a date with Simile. I don't know what I metaphor.

I spent the first 22 years of my life absorbing everything, like a big disgusting cell, and now I'm disgorging it with jokes added out into the world. That's a really gross metaphor.

Just because my name is Carlos Mencia, don't think my show is going to be about the difference between Mexicans and white people.

I don't even know where Russia and Mexico are.

Once, I was doing Bon Qui Qui in Miami, and this black girl was in the audience, and she yelled out, 'That's not funny!' which was really funny because she sounded exactly like the character I was playing.

I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.

I was in love with Michael Keaton. He was very funny.

Nothing is better than the moment you have Michael Bolton dressed as Forrest Gump and you see it in action.

For as long as I can remember, I've had John Michael Higgins in my brain in the funny department.

Michigan... it's a great state... somewhere.

Funny people come from all over. I think Michigan has dark humor on lock, though. Michigan, to me, is equal parts beautiful and noticeably dark. Saginaw made me dark, hahaha.

My mother thinks Mick Jagger is a foreign car.

My first gigs were at university: I'd dress up as Jesus, jump off a cross and dance to a Mick Jagger song. I don't know if it was funny or not, but it was a start.

My dad likes to take the mickey out of me for saying everything is 'amazing.'

Obviously, if you go to any football club in the world, you're going to get guys taking the mickey out of one another, but I would say that in Liverpool it was a lot closer to the knuckle.

I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

I often ask people in the audience what their favourite cheese is. Anything less than Gruyere and they're just not middle class!

I have made films on humor of poverty because I have lived in a lower middle class family.

I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

If you saw what I looked like in high school you probably would've laughed. I looked like I should have been in middle school.

I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.