Quotes About Humor

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

I do, I love to mock stuff. I am a British person.

I watch the wonderful Dara O'Briain refereeing 'Mock the Week,' where they all compete with each other. I wouldn't be on that. It frightens the life out of me.

If people are coming to see me because they like what I do on 'Mock the Week,' that's great because they are coming to see me being me.

I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.

I'm a human person, so I do have some sort of compassion for even the people I'm mocking. But at the end of the day, I'm the little guy taking on the big guy. That to me is not bullying. That's satire.

The process of getting into Miranda mode is simply making sure I'm as gross as possible. I make sure I'm wearing funky clothes and a lot of lipstick, and I'm good to go.

People think if you're a model then you must take yourself way too seriously.

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

People ask me about my influences and I say all the comedians in the 1970s and Dave Allen was a massive influence and a very big influence on a lot of modern comics.

Most modern comedy is crap.

I seem to be known as much by the moniker 'Mrs Funnybones' as my own name these days. The book was about how a modern woman looks at India and how India looks right back at her. I am glad that India seems to be looking back at me with a grin.

I'm not too modest of a person. I've got a pretty blue sense of humor.

If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.

I've got a big mole on my butt. It's true.

My mom put me into dance classes, found out that I can't dance to save my life.

I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

I don't just do a movie to do a movie. Of course I want to amuse people, but some of Madea's greatest moments are when she gets to talk about child rearing and bullying and all kinds of things like that.

If you look at anything, there are always comedic moments.

I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.