Quotes About Humor

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.

I can't work with my brother without laughing.

I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

I looked at him. "You really need to work on your threats. I can't tell if you're threatening me or inviting me for tea.

You might be a redneck if...you bought a VCR so you could tape wrestling while you are at work.

Although I do stand-up - doing actual stage work is terrifying for me.

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

I'm a nightclub comic. That's what I do. I work in the clubs uncensored because my mind is uncensored, and those are the thoughts that I have. I do the kind of comedy that I would enjoy seeing.

We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy.

All comedy does that. Every comedian I can think of - Larry David, Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Chris Rock - that's where the best comedy comes from, from stereotypes.

I think it's funny when stereotypes happen.

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.

The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.

I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.

Everybody thinks, 'Oh, you're married to Howard Stern... You must be laughing all the time.' Yes, we are laughing all the time, but our lives together, it is not crazy.