Quotes About Humor

When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can tell you what to say and not to say. Once in a while, a club owner will ask a comic to work clean, or not say something, but that's few and far between.

Talking-head shows are just a camera, a sound guy, and then a PA writing down what you say and a producer asking you questions. And you're just supposed to rephrase the question and add a joke to it. Figuring out how to do that was super hard.

The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid.

On '8 Out Of 10 Cats,' myself, Jimmy Carr and Jason Manford have got the producers around to our way of thinking - which is to trust us and allow us to ad-lib.

I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.

I would never be rude about somebody else in my profession because we all do this same thing. We're just trying to make people laugh.

If you've never seen me perform live, I'm a must-see. I'm very funny. I have a different perspective sometimes on a lot of what I do and the world itself, especially America.

People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's black people from America and then there's black people from Africa. Racially, they're the same; culturally, they're extremely different.

Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.

I'm grateful for laughter of any kind, but it can be off-putting if one person is laughing at a different time or in a different way from the rest of the audience.

Everybody's funny in different ways.

I think I am someone who is very interested in structure and different ways of delivering jokes.

With the show itself, we try to think of new and different ways to make each other laugh, while enjoying what we're doing.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

Writing a comedy script is a difficult thing. I think if someone is attempting a comedy and then they fail then it's understood.

Comedy is a very difficult thing to do.