Quotes About Humor

If I write a joke and it works, and it works consistently, that is gold to me.

Consumers of comedy, they like me and that's great.

I took a class at The Second City, and it became contagious.

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.

You have to laugh at things in order to let them be what they truly are. Because nothing is only sad. Nothing is only funny. There's context to all of those things.

We don't worry about continuity because when we're doing so many improvs, it's better to get the laugh. It's better to get the great lines even if they're in the wrong part of the room.

I enjoy doing both comedy and drama, as long as I'm not doing something continuously.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

Contradictions are fun.

Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

I was always good at being observationally funny - like, contributing something funny to the conversation.

Making 'Caddyshack' was like an exercise in controlled chaos.

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

When Richard Pryor did comedy, it was like he was having a conversation.

I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work.

I can't cook to save my life.

I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.

I'm a terrible cook.

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

I'm the chocolate chip cookie king of the world.