Quotes About Humor

The days are long. I'm not complaining, but it's a lot of work doing a single-camera comedy.

I know that Liz Meriwether likes to keep things as honest and complicated as life can be, which is really fun for all of us.

Getting a compliment, even if you need a cooty shot afterwards, is still a compliment.

It's interesting: composers can be very funny ducks.

I never want to compromise my act just to get a laugh.

I can't work a computer.

That whole concept of 'I want to really go after people' - I don't understand that. Is it a roast, or is it an awards show?

I once nodded off during one of my own concerts. While I was playing.

If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.

The first condition for comedy is that if you laugh at your own jokes, others won't laugh. You have to say something funny very seriously.

I enjoyed harassing tram conductors.

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

I loved that about her because I knew it would open the door for a lot of comedy, because I knew that the conflict would come, because not many people live like the way she does.

Being stupid and compassionate are not conflicts. Being mean and being funny and having something to say are not a conflict.

I was certainly not a class clown; I confused and angered a lot of people with my sense of humor.

I've had this problem my whole life where I feel like I'm laughing all the time, and I feel like I understand what makes me laugh. But other people don't see it. It's very confusing.

Comedy comes from confusion.

When someone says, 'I recognize you,' I'll say, 'Congratulations on having a TV.' It's a little joke.

It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with.

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

On 'Veep,' people are connecting with each other, even if they're making backhanded comments about somebody behind someone else's back.

So, I've got to have food, I've got to have humor. But these things are just the way in to what the show's really about, I think, which is connecting with the people.

Laughter is what connects pretty much all pain.