Quotes About Humor

Katherine Heigl, she was exactly the opposite of what I thought she'd be like. She smokes cigarettes, or she did then, and she's got a truck-driver's mouth, and she's really funny.

My job as a comedian is to heighten awareness about locally grown produce, fight factory farming, and promote euthanasia, but in a funny way.

Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius.

I've never considered myself to be naturally funny and it wasn't until I booked my first few jobs in Hollywood that I started thinking, "I guess I'm funny."

My uncle Jimmy took liver salts twice a day for 40 years. He died on Sunday, was buried Wednesday and the following Friday they had to go to the cemetery to beat his liver to death with a stick.

I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.

I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

I'm 47, my girlfriend's 33; she's 14 years younger than me: Back of the net!

Comedy is rarely funny.

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens.

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.

People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

Me personally, I don't have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they're all pretty funny.

I do think laughter is the most important thing, and being able to see the funny side of nearly anything is a crucial, crucial thing.

My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

I do try to compress a lot of information into what I do. It's funny.

That's a very nice, generic-sounding question: "When did you know you were funny?" But it pre-supposes that I think I'm really hilarious. So that's kind of a loaded question.

All New Years is to me is for taking down your dumb Christmas decorations. People who put up Christmas decorations, all they're saying is, 'Hey, we're not Jews.'