Quotes About Humor

It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.

Steve Martin in 'All of Me,' when he did that whole thing where he was possessed by the spirit in his body? It was brilliant.

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.

I love Steve Carell.

I was a huge fan of Steve Martin, as everyone I knew in comedy was.

Certainly early on, I kind of modeled myself after Steve Martin and Bill Murray. I would imitate them sometimes.

Steve Carell is the most spectacular ad-lib improviser ever. And just doing a scene with him, it's just one incredible topping himself on every take.

Steve Coogan does something for me. He is so naughty, but I quite fancy him.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.

Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv.

Steve Howey is probably the funniest man in Hollywood. For real. He is just that person that can make you laugh at all times.

It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.

I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.

I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.

I loved Steve Martin when I was younger, in the '70s.

When I was growing up, I had more comedy albums than musical ones. George Carlin, Cheech and Chong, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor - those were my main men.

I'll always watch anything that Steve Coogan does in the character of Alan Partridge.

Steve Buscemi, in between takes, becomes like a clam. It's hard to get a word out of him. It's very funny.

I don't really do that much office work. I just go to the office, and I'm like Steve Carell in 'The Office.' You know, like, I just go around and like - I don't know what I do in the office. I look at paperwork and act like I'm understanding what's going on there, and I shake my head and put my hand on my chin and like, 'Hmm.'

I used to tell people I was a comic and they'd be fascinated. Now all you get is: 'Oh yeah, my cousin Steve's a comic.'