Quotes About Humor

Somehow I got a hold of an address for Vonnegut shortly after making the Marx Brothers film. Vonnegut wrote back, saying that he had seen the Marx brothers film and loved it. That became the foundation of our friendship: old movies and comedies.

Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.

I'm an old school cat. I'm a fan of Richard Pryor and also Redd Foxx.

I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff. So I do very, very little of it.

In this day and age, when no one can agree on anything, I think it's important that people can come home and turn on the TV and have some good old-fashioned laughs.

All I care about is that people who like me think I'm funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.

As far as stand-up, a lot of Asians and Chinese are not as apt to stand-up, especially the older generation since they don't even know what stand-up is.

Crank-calling people is the oldest bit in the world.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

I like American late-night shows, like Trevor Noah, John Oliver and Bill Maher - I've got them all on series link.

Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious.

I think who I am as a person on and off the stage is always kind of the same thing, but I don't take a lot of things very seriously.

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

'Once More' is a comedy for sure, but it also makes us introspect.

My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'

I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny.

It's one of the things that 'Everwood' - what makes a great 'Everwood' episode is when it makes you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. From the first season, we've always had the chance to deal with death in a very real way, in a way that a lot of other shows can't or don't.

One of the things I like about comedy in general is that it affords Asian Americans the opportunity to not be noble.

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.