Quotes About Humor

It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?

I grew up watching 'Porridge' and it's so loved, it was a daunting prospect to take on. Fortunately, it was written by the original writers, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, who are comedy gods.

I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.

Comedians have to entertain the audience within a stipulated time. It is not possible to explain what we intend to convey in a detailed manner. This can only be done in films where comedians are the protagonists.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Someone did once bow to me, and my mother immediately told them off. Although whether she was prompted by the breach of protocol or the fact I enjoyed it a little too much, I really couldn't say.

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

I do like burgers, I do eat chicken - and I'm not proud of it, but I pick my nose. We all do.

I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

Could you imagine me and the roasters taking on the GOP field? It would be the greatest show ever. Prove that you can take a joke. Prove that you're a man or woman of the people. Prove that you're not above criticism even in the form of a backhanded compliment.

One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.

That's not part of me that I have to do something dark to prove to people that I'm an actor. The fuel for me is the laugh. Maybe later I'll want to show people the darker side... But right now, I'm having too much fan making people laugh. And it really makes me feel good.

When you start out, it sometimes feels like you're fighting audiences every night just to prove that you're funny.

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.

It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.

Funny is funny. If it's funny enough to women, it will be funny to men. I think that's been proven by Broad City and Amy Schumer. They're killing it.

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say.