Quotes About Humor

You've got to laugh in the face of disappointment.

If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.

I always tell myself every disaster is more material for my work and another anecdote to tell.

I can't cook to save my life. I'm a disaster.

I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.

A lot of comedy films, there's the opinion, 'Well, if it's funny, put it in.' But I think you have to be more disciplined than that.

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.'

There is this awkward discomfort when you're doing comedy on camera because people aren't allowed to laugh so that they can get a clean take and you're doing the same thing over and over again.

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.

It's so funny because a lot of times we'll have these discussions as writers, and you feel like you're having a discussion with your wife: 'I don't know. Are they ready to have another baby? Is it time? Well, she's not getting any younger.'

It's disgusting how much I laugh during the day.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

It's hard to dislike a guy who's spouting off funny comments when he grabs a guy in a hold, you know? It's hard to dislike that, because it's entertaining.

I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Being able to make a comedy at Disney was really appealing.

I'm clean but I'm not Disney.

I don't think that in humor and jokes, in whatever way they are done, there is any kind of disrespect.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

I think both comedy and dissent are liberating, for the listener as well!

It is important to understand that there is no distinction between comedians and actors. All are actors.

My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.