Quotes About Humor

It's really funny seeing all these media depictions of me as an intellectual because I'm a connoisseur of low culture.

I think Carmen Christopher is going to be massively huge. He's just too funny. He's got funny in his bones, and he wants to conquer every room.

I don't know about changing my mind regarding The One-Man Band. I've always personally found him incredibly entertaining, which is one of the reasons why, in the past, I surrounded myself with guys like him. I think he's a complete buffoon, don't get me wrong, but personally, I find him very funny.

I've always surrounded myself with funny people.

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.

I am always surrounded by very, very charming men, very intelligent men with a great sense of humour who always keep me entertained and pampered.

I grew up a really shy kid, but I always surrounded myself with a lot funny people. It depends on the day - if I feel like being quiet, I will be. I'm not a complete goofball, though.

If you're going to take a risk as a comic, make sure it's surrounded by other things that you're certain are funny.

I grew up surrounded by sketch comedy.

I was desperate for comedy to seep into me somehow, convinced that being surrounded by it would give me the confidence to go onstage myself.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off the bat, as soon as they can speak or be naughty.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

There are a lot of comedians that were bullied and picked on, and that's why they became comedians. Survival of the fittest.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

I've built a career on the survival skill I honed early on: being a smart aleck who is good with a fast comeback.

Dark comedy helped me survive.

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.