Quotes About Humor

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.

I'm very competitive about puns.

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

I'm probably doing puns more than anything in my life.

I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.

I think you could take any Bruckheimer movie and do it with puppets, and it would be screamingly funny.

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are licking peanut butter off my face.

I didn't want to do 'The Fluffy Puppy Learns to Hold Hands!' or 'Kitty Gets a Box to Play In!' There's a place for that for the little ones - some kids need that stuff. But I'm too dark and sarcastic.

No one wants to read a story where I saw a cute puppy on the street and I petted it. I mean, that's not funny. I only write about the funny stuff.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you, and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up, but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. To me, that's more pure.

An artist shouldn't be judged by how many people like his art but by how pure and good it is - but I think that when you're telling jokes, which is more what I'm doing, if people aren't laughing, you're telling bad jokes.

You don't really see many games that stand as a pure comedy games.

It's fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you're going to laugh, and you're going to be moved, and you're going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, 'purely procedural show.'

There's only a handful of people who are just purely, inherently funny, and I'm not one of them. I need content and a situation. I don't just walk on the screen, and people go, 'Ha ha ha!' There are people like that, and they can do almost anything. It's the Christopher Walken Rule.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.

If anyone has an MiLB franchise they're looking to gift for tax purposes, I'll take it! Not picky.

Honey, I beat down an alien with my purse in the 'X Files.'

I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.

I enjoy doing comedy that is why I pursue it. I believe that life is hard enough already and full of drama so I find things that are funny to use as material.