Quotes About Humor

People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human nature. You have to really be able to read a situation and peoples' emotions.

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them.

I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

To be perfectly honest with you, I think that The Darkness is a joke, and that's, unfortunately, exactly what the world wants.

Doing comedy is very difficult and if you do it perfectly you can do any kind of roles.

If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'

There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was very clear what I do.

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.

You see in comedy - performance is the cake and dialogue is like the icing on that cake.

'Inside' was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

I can imagine Dad joking about how hard it'd be to get an actor to give back when it's hard enough to ask them to give a good performance.

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

The routines of any ethnic comic - Eddie Murphy or George Lopez, for example - would not work if they were performed by anybody outside the group. The same routines would become arrogant and racist.