Quotes About Humor

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.

I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them.

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

When you finish a drama, you go, 'I can't wait to do a comedy.' When you finish a comedy, you go, 'I want to do a dramedy, dark humor.'

My cheerleader part in 'Fired Up!' is really funny.

Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.

I often joke that I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had.

'The Office' was such a great first job.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

Football is my first love - Man United, not comedy.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

I've always wanted to be the first one to laugh at me. I didn't want to get up on stage and start doing something and have someone say, 'Are you serious? Do you think that's good?'

If I have a passion for anything, it's more the truth than politics, and I think that's what got me interested in comedy in the first place, because the best comedy is the truth. People recognize that.

I had very big lips growing up, so my brother started to call me Scooter Fish because he decided a scooter fish has big lips.

I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'

I love 'Fishing With John' so much.

I wanted to take the seriousness out of everything a little bit, because it kind of fits my style.

It's only fitting that a Jewish comic makes his Just for Laughs anglo debut in a church, right?

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

In terms of comedy, I never did five-minute sets or clubs or anything. I just started doing shows. Coming from that theater background, it never crossed my mind that I should start doing five-minute sets.

It's important for me to get close to Sarah Huckabee Sanders and actually fix her makeup.

Most of my time at the White House, I wrote very unfunny speeches, but every year, I would work on the correspondents' dinner, which was a reminder of this other kind of writing that I loved to do.

White women love me 'cause of my edge. And I love white women.