Quotes About Humor

If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that.

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

Anyone can have a bad night and anyone can have a bad attempt at comedy.

Fukrey' was my first attempt at comedy.

I've always just been attracted to comedy.

I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world.

I am happy with my name. It is such an attraction, and it makes people laugh.

I was not an attractive child.

I'm not exactly Don Draper when it comes to physical attractiveness.

My audiences get younger all the time.

I know how to be funny to black audiences.

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.

I get really nervous at auditions. I know how to make people laugh, but auditions just really make me nervous.

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

If you have any sense, if you're any good at comedy, you come to Austin.

I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

Making people laugh was automatic.

When you do stand-up, it's so autonomous: I can say anything.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

I want to be a dog, but I'm a pussycat.

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

I love New York, but I wish they wouldn't put clothes on their dogs.