Quotes About Humor

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

On radio there's an obligation to be funny or interesting, and ideally both.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

Comedy brings out this rage in people: they get furious when they don't like something. I have some lovely hardcore fans.

My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.

The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.

A Birkin bag is a very good rain hat; just put everything else in a plastic bag.

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

My father had a great sense of humor. He wasn't only the Man in Black. He said it himself in the song 'Man in Black:' 'Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day.' He was a man of hope.

If you pick up a copy of 'A Better World,' you'll lose those last five pounds while saving a baby seal under a rainbow. I kid. It'll be ten pounds.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.

I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material.

My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

In ballet class, I felt like Ralph Wiggum.

After my episode of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' ran, Larry David and JJ Abrams were like, 'I discovered her,' but I was like 'Hold up. Please. I'm from 'Next Friday.' Everybody knows me!'

My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.

I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.

I remember being denied a protein bar that I went in to buy. I was so hungry, and it was before an audition, and I ran in and tried to buy this protein bar. And I checked my bank account, and it was negative 17 cents... And I remember getting on the phone with my mom and laughing that I have negative 17 cents.