Quotes About Humor

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

I've been very luckily - I bought a house, I work, my life's been very blessed. I thought it would be funny to exaggerate the non-working side.

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke to avoid contemplation.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

Without love, without humor, yoga is just a lot of hard work.

President Obama is funny, he's thoughtful, he's challenging, he's fun to work with - and it's been an extraordinary privilege.

I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.

All my friends are funny, witty, fun-loving people. As are my parents, and the people I work with. I get at least a couple of good laughs in every day.

I work best when people are here to puncture me

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.

I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn't matter, but work is third.

If you think it's funny to make fun of the "used car salesman, " you better only buy new and never sell your car. Just sayin.

Girls who use jokes to be nasty are often hiding other feelings they are struggling to express.

I'm afraid in my family we still laugh now about the fact that I was called 'stubborn' and my brother was called 'determined.'

My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked 'Jasper who?' I just said 'Carrott' - but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.

I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.

I was trying to be a clinical psychologist for years. But I kept getting stuck in comedy.

I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.