Quotes About Humor

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

If I think something's funny, I think it's funny.

Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity.

I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.

Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!

I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes.

That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.

It might be funny when you get hit by a car, but not when you get run over by one.

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?

When I had my Comedy Central roast, David [Spade] was my first choice to be roastmaster, because I adore him. He's funny as hell, and nobody is meaner.

Anything that's really grounded in humanity and is real, but just happens to be faux pas, or just really shouldn't be funny, I like it.

My kid wants to be a prison warden when he grows up so he can put thumb tacks on the electric chairs.

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

People get starstruck when they meet me, it's quite funny.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.

We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.

The British are so funny.

I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

When I was little, that was one thing that I was told in a vision: I was going to have my own show when I grew up. And it's going to be funny.