Quotes About Humor

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

I'm so not scary. I'm a pussycat. But what are you going to do, right? I mean, these cheekbones, and I guess these eyes, and the big nose... this is what my momma and my poppa gave to me, and that's the deal.

As long as there's Big Momma, we're going to bring you comedy.

My mom was one of the moms who was like, 'You are so handsome why aren't you modeling? I am handsome, but model... let's not get crazy.

Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often dressed up as an older, disheveled woman.

The funniest is the moms who get really angry with me, and they bring their kid who's dressed like Deadpool, and he's 9 years old, and they're scolding me that their little kid can't enjoy Deadpool.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

Friends didn't believe me when I told them about him, so I'd invite them over on Saturdays to watch the monkey watch TV.

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

I don't find monkeys inherently funny.

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

I learned the biggest lesson just watching Ed McMahon, watching him watch Mr. Carson's monologue.

Sometimes you see a monster sitting down in a chair and it looks ridiculous.

I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.

I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.

I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.

Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'

If I make $30,000 a month, I'll spend $29,999. I tell friends, 'Oh, you need money to go to college?' I'm a little crazy, but the backwash is heaven.

After having a real baby, I was sitting on a doughnut for a month.

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?

You will find this hard to believe, but I've never laughed as much as I did when I was a corporate lawyer. When you're working 16 hours a day for months at a time, you get punchy. Everything and everyone seems hilarious.