Quotes About Humor

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

I make fun of guys when I like them. I act like I'm 10 years old. I do it as a test to see if they can laugh at themselves. If they get sensitive, then it's like, 'Um, this isn't going to work.'

Do you work at the grocery store? Then why are you checking me out?

I laugh when I'm writing. I feel like all my work is funny to me.

I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

Every day after work, my mom and I go shopping. My dad is about to kill me. I say, We need it, daddy!

Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.

A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really matter. I guess I'm somewhat difficult when it comes to comedy.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.

Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

If I can surround myself with hilarious people every day, I will always want to go to work.

IT'S funny. It doesn't work the other way round !

We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later.

Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.

Looking scary with a baseball outfit on and a little bouffant, you know, it just does not work. Especially with sculpted eyebrows.

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways.

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.