Quotes About Humor

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.

Leader, bandits at 2 o'clock! Roger; it's only 1:30 now-what'll I do 'til then?

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.

My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my finger is on the pulse.

My family's always been really funny. I feel like comedy's hard. I feel like it's so important.

My daddy. He's so funny! My whole family jokes around a lot.

I think my funny books are my favorites because I like to laugh so much.

If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a lift, I could write a better song on the walls.

Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform.

It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

I watch the Discovery Channel, and you know what I've discovered? I need a girlfriend.

My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.

There's a fear that I don't think people are interested in my actual opinion. I just think people are interested in me being funny.

Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.

Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.

I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.