Quotes About Humor

I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

Looking back at my school reports, I start off as quite a swotty kid, and then when I get to 12 or 13, my teachers start saying: 'Lee has started to joke around a lot in class.' After that, it's a steady graph of decline, with the jokes increasing and increasing.

I could always improvise. Some of my teachers remember me standing in front of the class with a flower on my head, talking about photosynthesis. I'd stop and say, 'Is this working for any of you?' The kids were like, 'What is he doing?'

One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.

I used to impersonate people a lot when I was very young. But the good Lord gives us teachers to make fun of first. And then, of course, by college, I eventually graduated to a more sophisticated kind of comedy more people were familiar with.

I was always the classroom clown, and the teachers allowed me a certain latitude. The assemblies were good, and the headmaster used to tell little stories; I loved the idea of communal storytelling.

I am playing a principal who also teaches maths in a government school in 'Nil Battey Sannata,' the story of which is based in Agra. He is a simple common man and a very interesting human being. His character will get the audience in splits.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

Teaching someone to be funny is like teaching someone to be fast. They're already fast. You're just making them faster.

You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

Once I was walking with teammate Joy Fawcett in a hotel in Haiti. We were barefoot, and the lights went out to save electricity. Joy felt something crunch beneath her feet, and she felt the need to shine her flashlight on the floor. It was, I swear, a five-foot cockroach.

Yuzvendra Chahal, India's leg-spinner, is another IPL teammate. He's also a great guy and very funny.

A lot of my teammates in the NBA call me Little Patty anyway as they are about two feet taller than me.

I was giving some of my teammates a hard time, saying I've got more pop than they do.

I keep joking with my teammates that Nickelback should be our walkout song. I think everyone secretly likes at least one song.

With my teammates, I'm more open, funnier than people see me.

My teammates, they kid me all the time. My nickname is the doctor or the president in the locker room.

Among the many things that I loved about playing football was sitting around the locker room with teammates and poking fun at each other with sophomoric slams, each one more ridiculous than the next.

Soccer is an endless source of material. I mean, take my Paralympic teammates. It's a mix of 12 goofy, disabled guys and when we come together, we just laugh at each other.

Sydney thought about it for several moments. "Well. I've got a car." An hour later, I vowed I'd never make fun of that Mazda again.

We'd have to check into this another time— say, like, the next time we decided to break into a maximum-security prison. Mead, Richelle (2010-05-18). Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 138). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

And, since I've been hanging out with you, Dad's decided I'm on good behavior now." "Poor oblivious bastard," murmured Christian. Mead, Richelle (2009-08-07). Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 177). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.