Quotes About Humor

When people feel vulnerable, they make slapstick decisions.

The thing that I get so often with network comedies - and, I think, some of the most brilliant people in the world do them - but it's easy to hide behind a joke. I kind of feel like when you have to face things, and you don't have humor, it becomes very vulnerable; it exposes your deepest and darkest fears in some aspects.

Bits are fake conversations comedians have because they are uncomfortable being vulnerable with other human beings in any way.

Richard Pryor had real sincere and vulnerable moments.

I try and be as vulnerable in my comedy as possible, to open that door for other people.

Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He's just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don't see anything twisted about it. It's sort of ridiculous and wacky. It's sort of fun.

When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.

I don't think my kids have to worry too much about me embarrassing them because that's not how I would want to grow up, with wacky dad showing up at school and performing for everyone.

I've been guilty of being in the writers' room and going too dark; other people have gone too wacky and zany.

I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.

I can only think of one wacky best friend who I thought was awesome: Rhys Ifans in 'Notting Hill.' He really nailed the wacky best friend.

I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.

The thing to keep in mind is that's how I started long before MTV and Twitter and Facebook. I studied at broadcasting school so I could learn how to shoot and edit videos, and tried to create my own television show so we could see through these wacky visions we had of funny bits we wanted to shoot.

You can never have enough wacky in MMA.

I always saw myself as a comedic actor and wacky best friend.

In the B-52s, each of us has our own wacky sensibility, which, when we come together, it's like the four-headed monster. And it's great because we have the same sense of humor.

A lot of my comedy isn't necessarily about specific jokes but rather a wacky point of view that a super wacky character has.

'Sons of the Prophet' is a dark comedy about human suffering. The play explores the particularly messy portions of life - the times where you find yourself coping with multiple life issues, and before any of them can be resolved, two more show up on your plate. We've all been there, I'd wager.

My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I'm exhibiting continental drift in reverse.

I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.

I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.