Quotes About Humor

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

We became Morris and Morecambe. This partnership did not last long, however.

In my own country, I play light comedies and funny parts.

I love it when people send me body parts.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

'24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning.

I love partying and I love laughing.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

I've always felt that there's a Catskills comic who lives in my head and is constantly trying to get out. There's all these jokes that have been passed down from Jewish generation to Jewish generation, which I love but which I've always made fun of.

I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.

The late, great Joan Rivers actually gave me so much advice, and she was so nice to me before she passed.

I often joke with my husband and say to him, 'You know I have two theatre degrees, right? That's all I know how to do.' LOL! He went to Pepperdine Law School, has four degrees, and passed the California Bar first time around, so I always make sure he doesn't expect too much from me.

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.