Quotes About Humor

Comedy illuminates. And it unifies people, it's not as polarizing as shows with specific political agendas.

Nobody knew I could do comedy until I started Polaroid.

I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.'

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house.

My grandmother, in her retirement home, actually has a picture of me from 'Star' magazine on their fashion police list. I think that's hilarious, but if Grandma approves, then I feel like I am all good.

Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

I'm not sure when exactly I knew I was funny, but I always knew I was different. I never had an 'edit' button and would say whatever came into my head. Most of the time, what came out of my mouth was the very thing everyone else was thinking - but too polite or afraid to verbalize.

My momma will roast my friends all of the time. If you're one of my friends, and you meet my mom for the first time, she will definitely roast you in a polite way. It's just to test your bars.

I'm not a political comic.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

I don't believe that we should never not talk to people we don't agree with politically. If you can make that person laugh, it's the first step to getting him to listen to change their mind.

I have a couple of jokes that are politically oriented, but it just sickens me to do them.

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

There's no getting around it - I am a politically incorrect, racially insensitive, culturally controversial comic, but at least I'm self-aware.

My audience expects me to push the limits, to be politically incorrect. I do that because for me, that's the only place where the fun is, when I get to push the boundaries and make people laugh at things that they probably didn't want to laugh at.

No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.