Quotes About Humor

I've got the whole of 'Seinfeld' on DVD and I keep on watching the first four series and then stopping.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

That's a problem I have a lot of the time with humor in music, where it just kind of stops at the obvious level of: 'Hey, isn't it something that's in bad taste?'

I was Corinne Bailey. I added on Rae, my husband's name, when I got married. There's no hyphen. Stops it being posh!

I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, 'Actual'. I'm not to scale.

After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'

I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling.

I'm not one of those kind of people who does the observational 'Hey, don't you hate it when you're at the grocery store and the line's long and the cash register starts taking too long.' I don't really do that kind of stuff. I'm heavy on persona, and I do a lot of interacting with the audience.

Bad choices make good stories.

Given a little time for the pain to subside, dreadful experiences often can be the basis of funny jokes or stories.

I write these shows one joke at a time. There's no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there's not continuity.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going to take that city by storm and it taught me a lot; it was like the school of life. For me, it was like a series of really hilarious experiences in New York with getting jobs and getting fired.

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

I am over that phase where any kind of story would bother me, be it personal or professional. I just laugh it off and forget about it.

For a movie's success, comedy must blend with the storyline. Else, comedy might click but the movie will die.

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.

I'm a sarcastic, observational storyteller.

I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just go up and just talk about my day.' I don't want that to happen.