Quotes About Humor

Why do I love Roald Dahl? His voice, more than anything. It's irreproducible. It's so musical, and it's funny even when it's not trying to be, which is most of the time.

More than anything, I enjoy making people laugh.

I feel that I'm a stand-up comedian more than anything else, that's my job.

Even 'The Inevitability of Death' is kind of a funny song more than anything. I mean, I thought it would be funny imagining radio deejays cueing it up and announcing it as people are driving off to work.

It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.'

I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

When I walk past Little Jimmy Dickens, he'll say, 'Hey Morgan!' Those are the moments you can't buy, when you're idols know your name and they mess with you and play jokes on you.

Mitt Romney is a true Mormon. John Edwards and Bill Clinton are not real Mormons. It was not 'Brigham Young' they were chanting. It was 'Bring 'em young.'

I find Mormons adorable.

I don't want to be a total moron and be just known as the jazz-handed judge.

I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is the mortar. You piece it all together and have a certain flow to it.

I love Kate Moss. I've worked with her a couple of times, and she is a great girl, really funny and easy to work with.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Laughter is America's most important export.

Catherine O'Hara's one of the most amazing, wonderful actresses, but she's an amazing improviser. She really is.

My dad is the funniest human being I've ever met in my life - for years, I'd watch him hold court in whatever situation he was in; he was the most amazing raconteur. I often feel I've hijacked what should have been his career.

The most difficult thing is to make people laugh. It is easy to make them cry.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

It's the most difficult thing to make people laugh.

I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons.

'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.

Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.