Quotes About Humor

I was very young when 'The Carol Burnett Show' came out, but that kind of comedy and the spontaneity of her, I think it really deeply affected me within just the joy of performance.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it's always spontaneous. I couldn't write a comedy skit for someone else.

The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.

I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous.

With comedy, I like to not rehearse and just have fun with it, because I think being spontaneous is the best thing for a comedy, in my opinion.

I couldn't deliver a joke if you asked me to. It would have to be live and spontaneous. And that's what I was able to have in New York, at 9 o'clock in the morning, and people all over the country seemed to respond to it.

I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.

Both my mother's younger sisters, Padmini and Tejaswini, are actresses. I am extremely close to Teju mausi, as I am quite similar to her. We both are adventurous, spontaneous, childish, impulsive, and a bit silly and have our own strange sense of humour.

So the actual riffing came out of us just sitting there and doing it the way I think some people think we really did it, which is all spontaneously, and it really was.

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

Engineers working in the 'black world' of classified military projects are often referred to in military circles as 'black hats.' There are a lot of jokes about the difference between 'white hats' and their spooky counterparts.

I am actively campaigning for 'chest hair' to become an Olympic sport.

I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Part of a sportsman's job is taking banter from the crowd.

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.

I've tried to get cute - and I don't mind saying tried to be cute - at the quarterback spot.

My humour is spot on.

Comedy is my soft spot.