Quotes About Humor

Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

Crashing is never funny, but sometimes you can jump up, laugh at your stupidity, and go, 'What the hell was that?'

Stupidity took me pretty far.

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!

I have no detectable hair style.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

I've usually had two styles: the Fletch character and the Clark Griswold character.

There are many styles of standup, but the comedians I like are people like Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor. Because Richard Pryor told the truth. Chris Rock. I love Chris Rock. He's funny, but he's also poignant. He's not there just to make people laugh; he's there to make people wake up, too.

Obviously comedic styles do change.

I look like if AJ Styles and Conrad Thompson had a child. But the child didn't grow full arms or legs; he just grew out from the belly.

I kind of say I am a stylish geek, to make myself feel better, but I am definitely a geek.

I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. I'm not Mr. Debonair Suave. I'm just a regular boy who goofs around, pulls pranks, and makes jokes. That doesn't sound very hot to me.

You see George Clooney, and you think he's suave and handsome and really charming, but he's such a goofball!

There is this fallacy of the 'cool' comedian out there. You see the guys who take themselves very seriously and think they're being very suave and sardonic. But they're just jesters like the rest of us; they're just goons like we all are. The job is to make people laugh.

I'm a clown. I'm a comedian. Comedy, by design, is a place to explore the subconscious.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

Death is not my best subject.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless - sorry, again - attempts to make the subject more palatable - last one.