Quotes About Humor

I think the more you hone your voice, take risks and talk about things that matter, the better chance you have of getting into the realm of the philosophers of stand up. But you have to be funny.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.

The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague.

Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me.

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.

When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy.

I've got a sponge front door. Hey, don't knock it.

Amy Poehler and I have been friends for so long, we're like Oprah and Gale. Only we're not denying anything.

Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: "No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat."

You know who does have a funny bone in her body? Your mom every night for a dollar.

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

My movies before tend to be just funny. But it wasn't a conscious thing I was looking for at all.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think.

Two cannibals eating a clown. One asks the other, 'Does this taste funny to you?'

Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with hundreds and thousands. Police say that he topped himself.

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".

Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.