Quotes About Humor

I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business.

I still mess around and joke with my family and friends like I did when I was nine or 10. For me, nothing's changed. Sure, I play football, but I try to keep my life off the pitch as simple as possible.

I don't really think about things too much, but people are going to form impressions about you if you play football, aren't they? And if they think you're the funny guy or the boy that likes a laugh, well that ain't so bad.

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

I play golf but very badly.

Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.

I like to play music, and I like to be funny, so I just do both at the same time.

That whole 'Bo' Selecta!' thing was damaging. I played along with it; I said it was cool, I can take a joke, roll with it, so I went on the show. But it was killing me.

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

Jill Eisenstadt is a writer of many admirable gifts. Foremost among them are a sharp eye for people, a playful love of language, and, it's probably safe to assume, nearly boundless energy.

When I was on the playground, people were calling me Jackie Chan.

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid and was always doing bits for my friends and family. I remember doing pratfalls on the playground in fourth grade for my friend and really hurting my hip.

I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

Oh, come off it, I've only directed three plays for the RSC.

Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

I would spend a lot of time setting up an accident scene where it appeared that I had seriously hurt myself - hedge-cutter, ketchup, that sort of thing. When my sister happened upon the scene of horror, I would lift my head and pathetically plead for her to 'get Mum'.