Quotes About Humor

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

Hmm... Death by mini bar, how glamorous.

I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.

I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl.

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.

I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.

I have a ton of Holocaust stuff, and some of it is really hard core.

I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.

Jeff Ross has a new show on Comedy Central where he roasts the news. It'll be perfect for people who find Jon Stewart too handsome and funny.

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.

It's always funny to find what people's button is.

I was in high school when Will Ferrell was first on 'Saturday Night Live', and I remember thinking, 'Man, that guy is the funniest guy ever.'

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

They laughed much harder than the memory was funny because it felt good to laugh.