Quotes About Humor

I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

Real progress will have been made when people don't care or even notice the color of a comedian when they'll just be concerned with whether he's funny.

I just knew that I was funny, and I knew that it was just a matter of time. I didn't know what was going to actually happen - this is definitely way bigger than I thought - but I knew there was no way I was going to be that funny, and nobody was going to notice it.

The really funny moments you notice throughout your life are very seldom generated by one person telling a joke.

I don't feel bad about the fact that I notice if a lot of people laugh at a comic, and think, 'That worked; I'll do things like that more.'

If you'll notice, we don't have any real out and out jokes on 'Hogan.' Basically the program is drama.

I felt that mainstream comedy caters to men and people don't even notice.

Have you ever noticed when people stop laughing, they say, 'Oh dear?'

I was always humorous by nature but, maybe, no one noticed it. Or, maybe, I looked just too intense or serious to others.

My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her - it's just because the light is really nice. She's usually right. I definitely am somebody who notices the way the light skips off the floor.

The thing is, I was never really a comedian - a comedian would scoff at the notion of me as a comedian because I've never done anything, really. I've always just been some guy who's funny.

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

My first two novels were very black comedies.

I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels.

I own a lot of novelty knitwear and I think some of it's quite fun.

Every now and then I get angry, but fortunately, when I do, it's like watching a little dog try to attack something - it's something I'm not very good at.

There's a lot of nuances to stand-up that you definitely see when you watch someone like Chris Rock in that his body position is also part of why the joke works.