Quotes About Humor

The key to doing 'Harold and Kumar' movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar's relationship and friendship believable, and we don't actually work on being that funny.

A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot, and I'm primarily a plot guy.

I see myself primarily as a comedian, and my aim on the 'Last Leg' is to be as funny as I can about the news.

I am primarily a comedian. Sometimes I also do comedy about my cats. Now unless you find metaphors in cats, there is nothing political about those and I love doing such jokes as much as I love doing political content.

People look upon me primarily as a comedian. I'm trying to get away from that, though I do like comedy.

My primary responsibility is to be funny.

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

You're running to be prime minister - it's hard to be the person who makes jokes.

Chiki Sarkar edited 'Mrs Funnybones,' and she is a ruthless but kind editor to work with. The only lesson I learnt during this process was to say, 'Yes, Prime Minister,' and re-write.

We have this joke in England that half the people want me to be prime minister, and the other half want me shot.

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

Sarcasm is lost in print.

Even conservative columnists tend to prefer humor that isn't fit to print.

Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.

Prior to the 'Chappelle's Show,' you know, no one would even listen to me, in the frame of, 'Oh, he is trying to be funny.'

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

In earlier comics, my only priority was telling a joke in the last panel, but now I try to make every panel as interesting as possible, and that normally means at least a li'l joke there.

The No 1 priority in TV comedy today is 'don't frighten the horses,' and it's probably No 2 and 3 as well.

Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of 'Mad' magazine.