Quotes About Humor

Not Going Out's jokes were based on the American mentality in terms of how often the jokes appear.

'Arab Labor' was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace.

I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'

There's all sorts of terrible things that happen around the world. And comedy's one of those few things where you can discuss those things.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

There's some terrible food on 'Come Dine With Me' and that creates some great moments.

There are no doctors in my family, and I've joked about this, that my dad got the doctor daughter he always wanted. But I would make a terrible doctor - I hate the sight of blood!

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

I'm kind of a nerd. A square. And I'm terrible at telling jokes. I always forget the punch line.

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.

I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.

I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.

I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.

While I put forth the suntan and the teeth and the cavalier attitude, I've survived under the worst of eras and times, and I've always had a good time doing it, because I never really took myself seriously, nor did I take life seriously because it is already terribly serious.

Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish.

I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling out... I don't take them terribly seriously. It's like a cake, with ingredients.