Quotes About Humor

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.

I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

I need to be cheered up a lot. I think funny people are people who need to be cheered up.

I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

I still think funny, and people young and old still come and see me. That's flattering. The day comes that they stop coming, then I'll know that it's time to retire to the Jewish ranch.

Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

My cousin had a baby and I was watching her breastfeed for a couple of bucks, and I'll tell you ladies: it's amazing.

I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

I knew a girl so ugly, she had a face like a saint-a Saint Bernard!

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.