Quotes About Humor

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents showed me their movies when I was very young. And as I got older, I became a Charlie Chaplin fan, and I love Buster Keaton.

I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That's about it. The rest I'm really flexible on.

I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

No matter what hyenas sound like, they are not actually laughing.

I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.

I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.

When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'

For me, a hearty 'belly laugh' is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.

I can make the best fart noises. I can make, like, 10 different sounds at different levels.

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?

On 'The Soup,' we were never a political show.

I've barfed in movies before. It seems like it always ends up being Campbell's soup mixed with something else.

Parody is homage gone sour.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.