Quotes About Humor

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.

In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.

Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character.

When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the comedy turns into a clowning kind of situation.

People always talk about my heel/face turns. One of the jokes in America is I've had more turns than NASCAR.

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.

We accidentally gave my boys 'Ninja Turtle' names. I can promise you that Michelangelo and Donatello will not be coming out of me.

Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.

I'm not afraid of the Canadian tuxedo.

My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

Mommy, why does daddy cuss the TV and call it Howard?

It was horrible having to watch myself on TV. I think I would have had a much better time if I didn't take it so seriously.

We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.

I made a good living being a tough guy on TV, but I'd rather laugh and joke all day long than try to be a tough guy.

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

'Monty Python' was never on TV in the U.K. when I was a kid.

Improv changed my life in the best way. I gained so much confidence and really learned how to use my sense of humor to do something other than make sarcastic comments to the TV, though that remains one of my best skills. I stayed in Chicago for college mainly to continue doing improv, which was an awesome decision for me.

On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.

I wrestled a bull on national TV for months. A midget dressed as a bull against another midget. You can't take it that seriously. So, every opportunity I'm given I think, 'How can I make this fun?'