Quotes About Humor

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

It's the hardest thing to come up with an hour of material that can consistently keep people laughing.

If all you have is satire, your show will close. Even if all you have is comedy, your show will close. The hardest thing is not making people laugh: the hardest thing is building an emotional story. Any child can make a group of adults laugh.

Comedy is the hardest thing to get right. I remember a joke we did in 'What's Up, Doc?' that didn't get a single laugh. So we moved the shot a foot-and-a-half to one side, and all of a sudden, the laugh was there. It drives you crazy; the balance is so delicate.

The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.

'Billy on the Street' is the hardest thing that I will ever do.

The hardest thing to write is sitcom.

To entertain looks very flippant, but it is the hardest thing in the world.

Humor is the hardest thing to do. Action is so much easier, because you're just trying to establish the mood, and a pacing, and a rhythm, and an energy. Where, in humor, comedy is so subjective.

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

I just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily.

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

I like curvy women. But obviously, a sense of humour is the most important thing. And there's nothing sexier than a girl who is comfortable in her own skin.

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory - the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls 'the arc.'

I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

I know I'm funny, and I like to be in front of people, and the fact that I'm good at that. It's the one thing that gave me self-esteem.

The one thing I was really good at was being spontaneous. I was quick-witted. I lost that with my stroke.

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.