Quotes About Humor

It is nice to know that even David Beckham doesn't have good taste in everything.

My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.

And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

I've been in situations where, in the midst of really hardcore events in my life, I made some ridiculous off-color joke that was in horrible taste, but made people laugh.

Bad taste is not illegal. I always got my first laughs as a kid by saying inappropriate things. That's always how we're going to get our laughs as comics.

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender. I'm happy to go at anything that has a cause to be laughed at.

I'm too tasteful for my pants.

For me, 'Jewishness' manifests within my humor, slang, cynicism, culinary tastes, and the spirit of generosity ingrained in me.

I was drawn to it much to my father's dismay. He wanted me to be a pianist like he was, but I had coarser tastes - like that old joke: What do you call a guy who hangs around with musicians? A drummer.

Certain shows, when it's all comedy, it's like when you eat something that's too sweet and it just tastes gross. You need that salted caramel.

I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.

My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

I'm never gonna get it, but I always wanted a tattoo that says: 'This is my tattoo.'

I always liked the idea of shaving the back of my head and getting a tattoo of my own face there so that, whichever way I was looking, I could freak people out.

Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.

Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.

Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrongheaded. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed into.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.