Quotes About Humor

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

There are many comics around who don't really have a feel for comedy. They can say outrageous things, have clever thoughts, and deliver some funny angles. But they are not genuinely funny.

What I love about 'Modern Family' is that it makes you laugh, and there's hilarious physical gags that are outrageous, but there's real heart to it, and you feel good after you watch it.

'Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have said, and it's incredible how mean critics can be about comedies... It's so ridiculous.

Being an outsider helps breed comedy.

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

There's a lot of comedy in being the outsider. You can say, 'That's weird. Why do you do it that way? That's foreign to me. That's pretty weird.'

Always being the outsider, you... feel comfortable everywhere, but you don't really feel at home anywhere. I definitely draw comedy from that.

One of the things I figured out was that I was having good gigs when I wore jumpers. It was because I looked more like an outsider, so they expected me to talk about weird stuff rather than normal stuff.

It's fun to go to a job where you know you're going to laugh before the day is over.

There is something about sex that always brings out the funny in me. I think it's because we make such fools of ourselves over it.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

I would get ill before going onstage - something about getting in front of people, and if they don't laugh, I'm a bomb. I got over it when somebody laughed.

I'm hugely negative, so if a joke doesn't land it takes me a long time to get over it. If something doesn't go well I go dark in my head. Basically I start thinking it should be illegal for me to be doing comedy.

When I'd watch myself coaching, I'd say, 'Man, I look bad,' but I never felt I didn't have a sense of humor with the team. Maybe I was too over-the-top serious.

A lot of the comedic work Ive done has been over-the-top, sketchy stuff.

There's an incredible amount of pain involved in being a human, but this humorous stuff is essential in overcoming it.

Comedy is great because there's no overhead.

I think a lot of quote-unquote 'comedic actors' really go for the laugh and are overly straining and sort of trying.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

Seth Meyers is highly overrated as a comedian.

interviewing that people said he could make a stump confess to saying "timber.

if you can't find any grappa, half a cup of cough medicine should achieve similar results." [Audrey's advice]

Chris Hemsworth is like Christopher Reeve in that he can do two things: he can wear a big red cape without a shred of self-consciousness. But he's also funny as hell, and he's so sweet. So with all the fish-out-of-water stuff, he's so funny. So he does almost two jobs in a way.