Quotes About Humor

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.

The Devil is fun.

You can't really do comedy if you're working with Ryan Reynolds, eh? He outplays everyone in that field, so I couldn't really 'dial it down,' because he was just so much better than me at comedy.

I bought my wife a beautiful diamond ring and I even had it engraved - with the price.

I think I was trying to choose a name for him, and my flatmate was like, 'Oh, you should call him Diana.' I was like, 'Yeah. Very funny.' I think someone then said 'Diana Spencer,' and I'd always wanted to call my dog quite like an old person name, like Janet or something like that. 'Spencer' weirdly fit that bill.

I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken!

I never said, 'no, I'm not going to do that.' Two things stand out that I really didn't care for, there was the one where they dressed me as a cow. Obviously, I didn't care for it, but I knew it was for 'hahas' for fun stuff. And then, when they put me in a diaper as the New Year's baby, I was like, 'ugh, here we go.'

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

When I die, I want to come back as Bobby Layne's chauffeur.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

Me and my comedy writer friends talk a lot about how we love 'Die Hard,' but we'll never be able to write 'Die Hard.'

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

All I'm really doing is talking about going on diets and... just about being a big guy. Why should that be any different from a comic that says, 'I was an alcoholic,' or, 'I was in a bad relationship?'

If I'm making fun of race or making fun of the differences of us, it's just because it's a reality of the situation of the world. And, if you can't laugh at it, that's kind of a bummer.

I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor.

Funny and sad are two sides of the same coin. I think that most comedians are able to tap into deep subject matter.

'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do a mockumentary, you are always going to be compared with that film, and you are never going to be as funny.

I've always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the 'Spinal Tap' era of comedy.

Every city has comedians who tap into local culture and have success but don't travel well.

Sometimes I'll put on a Zig Ziglar tape: he's a motivational speaker who is really funny and really American. I know I should do the things he says, but I'm too cynical.

My dad died right after performing at the Friars' roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have that tape somewhere. There's still a lot of good jokes in there. I mean, that was 1958.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.