Quotes About Humor

I wouldn't like to meet Daniel Craig on a dark night if I'd said anything bad about him.

And the comic Daniel Kitson, he makes very good pies. I think he made one with feta, it was incredible. King of the pies.

For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.

I always loved comedy growing up - Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye.

I like my face. It's cheeky - dare I say, Chaplinesque.

When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'

In stand-up, there's that idea that comedy comes from a dark place, but it's not a rule.

I don't think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have in common is that, growing up, being funny was a coping mechanism.

I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.

Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.

The man-child in American comedies is always glorified; they never really show the darker side.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

I'm a fan of, like, the Coen Brothers, with the darker humor in it.

Do you know who I would love to play? Morticia Addams - then I could use all that darkness to be funny.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness.

I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are things that are very funny about that.

My father was always much more willing to laugh than to go to the darkness.

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

I'm a lot of fun on a date.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

I'm an easy date. I meant cheap date, cheap date!

You know what makes me mad about 'The Bachelorette?' That, you know, that that chick would get a man. Get me a date.