Quotes About Humor

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

Anytime I talk about my wife, I want to make it, like, 'the battle-ax,' and I always do that bit, but it's not true. She's a very positive person.

When people are funny, I like to let them know that they're funny. There's so much negativity, it's cool to get some positivity out there.

I believe in putting out positivity into the world and so comedy is a job where you feel like you're making people happy. It's a very addictive feeling and you want to do it more and more.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.

Katherine Parkinson has got a classics degree from Cambridge yet is an idiot - in the best possible way.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?

I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.

Nobody in show business can possibly get away with making fun of their boss.

I want to be able to make people laugh as hard as they possibly can, and I really think they need that.

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad.

Just sharing things that are either embarrassing or possibly relatable, searching for that laugh so that someone makes me feel less alone. Like, 'Oh, they laughed, so they get what I'm saying.

I have this JPM thing: jokes per minute. I've worked out that I should get in about 12 punchlines in five minutes. I need them all. It's like when you walk down a road, if there's a lamp post that's out, it's fine if you can see the next one's alight, but if there's two out, that's a period of frightening darkness.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.

There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

I've always wanted to make a poster out of my bad reviews and frame it.

I never got to see inside No 10, but I did once go to Ann Widdecombe's ministerial office under the Commons where she sat framed by two posters on her wall, one featuring a Technicolor foetus in an anti-abortion message, the other Garfield the Cat wryly musing, 'The Diet Starts... Tomorrow.'

I see all these posts saying, 'I met Lewis Capaldi,' and in the picture, I look like a melting hippo.