Quotes About Humor

What intrigued me about him was his intelligence, his humor. I'd been all over the world. I had started a career. At that point, I had sort of committed myself to not committing. I didn't want to have to raise a husband, but he was so sophisticated and so funny.

I sat down once with the application for Match.com and started to laugh. I couldn't even get past the first page. And that's a very good site!

I started reading 'The Onion' when I was 13 years old.

The marriages to Mickey and Artie were easy come, easy go. I called them my 'starter husbands!'

That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.

I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.

I think it is a bit harder for women starting in comedy.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.

When I moved from Boston to L.A., I floundered. I definitely did time at the Improv and the Comedy Store, making 20 bucks a night. I learned how to be a starving comic. I was an in-debt comic: I ate well on loan.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

I always told people Alabama was the smartest state because it has four As and a B.

I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh.

Some comedy has turned into, 'Donald Trump's bad, isn't he?' That's a true statement. But where is your joke?

I think it's important for comedians to do our little part. I don't do it carelessly. I do it thoughtfully. I don't try to just shock. I try to make a statement.

At the end of the day, I'm not really trying to make a statement with any of my standup.

I never liked wrestling, but I thought The Rock was brilliant, and that is a statement to how funny he is that I'd even watch a show that I didn't like just to see him on it.

Everything is not a political statement. Everything is not about being an advocate. Sometimes it's just pure entertainment.

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

I don't make political statements; let's all have a laugh. Let's all live and be free. I try and live to the letter of the law, but right on the edge of it.

There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them. If something makes me laugh, that's it.

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.

Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.