Quotes About Humor

When Andy Kaufman performed, he was not just trying to be funny. He was playing with the notion of what it means to try to be funny, of what it means to be an audience expecting somebody to be funny. He was doing a dance and playing a game.

I want my audience to be my friends - that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won't get the best show.

I haven't had a lot of comedy come my way as a performer.

I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.

It wasn't so much figuring out my voice comedically, because that was always pretty clear. It was more about performing and being a good, watchable performer.

I'm one of the most popular cabaret performers, and I don't sing a note. And nobody expects me to sing.

I think people have a misconception about comedians and performers. All that stuff is serious business.

I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I'd be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

I love performing. I love the people. I sound like Liza Minnelli right now, don't I?

I enjoy performing for heavily armed people. It's easier than going to Georgia.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

I may be more passionate about my comedy because that's the one place where I feel comfortable - because I'm in the now. Performing is the only time of the day when I have to really force every ounce of concentration into whatever's happening in that moment.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

When somebody takes themselves seriously that's fodder for comedy. I think every musician goes through certain periods of their career where they're all guilty of that - Spandau Ballet included.

People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.

I think one of the perks of getting to do comedy is the ability to hang out with the funniest people in the world.

I want to be rich enough that, without being cruel, I could buy a horse, a white horse, and permanently attach a horn. A pearlescent horn. And then I could just be like, 'Yeah, I have a unicorn.' But I don't know how you do that without being cruel.

You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

I always joke about how I get excited to go to the grocery store without permission.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.

Off-camera, I sound like Perry Como.

Katy Perry look like Kermit the Frog.