Quotes About Humor

My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.

I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.

I'm a comedian, not a politician.

The Earth will be around for a long time before you have a funnier president than Obama. He has a stand-up's cadence and the awareness and ability to make jokes about himself before comedians can. That's a page almost every politician should try to take from his book.

I'm a comedian. You have to understand that my brain doesn't work like a politician's brain.

My funny speech wasn't funny. That's not the first time a politician has done that.

I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

I think pompous accents are inherently funnier.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

I just find anyone who's arrogant and pompous is always the funniest for me.

I would love to see everybody get a pony, don't get me wrong.

I have to go... drop some kids in the pool.

I made so many jokes about poor Russell Crowe, he once knocked on my dressing room door, and told me he wanted to go out on this chat show we were on to laugh with me. Now he's ruined it. I can't make another joke about him.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

I once started tennis lessons and turned some poor man grey overnight. Now I feign injuries when I'm asked for a game.

I do sarcasm really poorly.

I sing a little bit, yeah. But I sing very poorly.

What offends me more than something sexist is something poorly written or unfunny or cliched.