Quotes About Humor

George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host Saturday Night Live.

I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.

No more rhymes now I mean it!" "Anybody want a peanut?" "AAHH!

Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged -- but not until I'm down to a size eight.

Why is everyone calling me Consort?" "Jim designated you as Consort in official papers. You don't want to be called Mate, calling you Alpha is confusing, and 'Beast Lady' makes people laugh.

I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.

There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

I've never read a review from anybody that said, "I don't want to watch this anymore because it's just too funny. I laughed too much."

I'm good at not laughing. It's not that I don't want to. I'm too old and experienced.

What are you doing here?" [ndr prison] Selling Girl Scout cookies," I said. "Want some? The Samoas are terrific." (Max II to Max)

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge.

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

I write to entertain. When people read one of my books I want them to finish with a smile on their faces, feeling a little bit better about themselves and the people in their lives.

Valentines day are coming up and a German company has made chokolate in shapes of couples making love. I don't like them... I don't want my chokolate to have more fun than me.

I was going to start off tonight with an Obama joke but I don't want to get audited by the IRS.