Quotes About Humor

I think people fetishize glasses in general. You could put glasses on a rotting pumpkin and people would think it was sexy.

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, because you've got to see to it that you don't torpedo any of his punch lines.

I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.

I don't write punch lines.

I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.

Comedy should always evolve; it's so easy to punch down.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

Saying gay people shouldn't be the punchline is basically saying don't make people the punch line, which I think is ridiculous. The whole point of comedy is, on some level, to make fun of ourselves and put everything into an absurdist context.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.

I really respect those guys that get $250,000 for punching up scripts, because it's an art form.

We all know showbiz isn't easy, but being a comic - especially being a female comic - can be quite punishing.

My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.

My first band was called Nubert Circus, a very embarrassing, dumb name. It means nothing. We were kind of grunge. I would say we were more funny punk, a lot of songs about food and stuff like that.

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

I live and die by puns.

I love making puns.