Quotes About Humor

If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.

There are only two types of people in this world; people who hate clowns, and clowns.

Gotta love Walmart. Where else can you buy Fritos and bullets?

guess i shouldn't be calling you shorty anymore.–Gunny Van Dyke

flusher handle and all he managed to do was fall back and flush the stupid toilet.

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

I am pleased to say that as I get older, I get less and less like the sitcom 'Miranda.' She is really a clown character, a heightened version of the 20-something me.

The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a possessed car. It was also my first attempt at humour, which fell completely flat because no one who read it realized it was a parody!

A sketch should be about two to three minutes, which is basically what most songs are. They're usually done by groups. Good examples of each build and have different parts and twists in them. I guess sketch would be the comedy version of music.

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.

I'll come up with an idea for a character, and I'll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it - that it's really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.

I've always played some version of a nerdy guy or something like that. I mean, one of my story lines on 'Silicon Valley' is that I am very bad with women!

I only write about stuff that sort of happens to me, and then I blow it up into a much funnier version.

Mary Katherine Gallagher is an exaggerated version of me, how I felt when I was little.

Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.

I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my version of him - that's in his collection.

My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.

The idea of taking a brand that already exists and making a really poor-looking version of it, with acrylic or puffy paint, is really aesthetically pleasing to my eyes and also funny.

I'm a big fan of 'The Office', both the British and the American versions.

What I love about comedy is that it's unquestionably working. There are varying degrees of that, where there's something that makes you smile and is funny versus something that makes you hysterically laugh.

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Since childhood, I've been a clown. I've always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It's my original self.