Quotes About Humor

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

Laughter does not please the mighty.

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.

I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!

Please don't compare me with Taher Shah. He is a joker, while I am an artiste - I am a model and an actress. Taher Shah comes, makes people laugh, and goes away. I work with a lot of honesty.

I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.

That really has been my message over the years: 'Hey, we're all in this together, so let's laugh about it a little, please.' It adds perspective to an argument if you know where you're coming from.

When I read out loud in class, it was a joy for everyone else because I would mispronounce things so badly. I used to try to count how many people were in front of me and then work out which paragraph I would have to read out and start trying to learn it. And I would sit there thinking, 'Please let the bell go so that it doesn't get round to me.'

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

My family were nothing but pleased when I told them I wanted to be a comedian.

I guess I'm pleased and proud of the respect of my peers, and that when I disappear from the scene or from this earth, I will have left a mark. They'll say, 'He did it well.' I like being funny; it opens people up.

I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.

I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.

'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.

It's not really a guilty pleasure, but I love old cartoons. I could watch Bugs Bunny and Tweety all day long.

I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.

I would love to be a dad. There are plenty of comedians who have kids. But they're dads. Being a dad is so different from being a mom.

You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.

Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.

There were plenty of times before I did stand-up where I needed counselling, but I didn't go because it would have meant I was officially ill.