Quotes About Humor

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.

What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand.

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

One of the many things I want to do is dig us out of that hole so that guys, in particular, can go: "Oh, yeah. Those people are really funny. I've seen that person. It's a woman. They are funny."

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny.

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.

[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park.

Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.

[Baz Luhrmann] is funny, to be quite honest with you.

When you truly have fun on the set it translates into a funny show on tv.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

He had on a funny T-shirt, as usual. Today's featured acartoon figure running from a giant T. rex, and it read EXERCISE: SOME MOTIVATIONREQUIRED.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.