Quotes About Humor

Comedy gigs are there because you are all in acceptance that the world is not the way it should be. You have to give yourself a break; otherwise, you would sit crying in a darkened room.

I love comedy and I did a few gigs here and there but it never really took off. It was too scary.

Whenever a young comic asks me for advice I only have two things to say. One is to try and do what you think is genuinely funny and the other is just do loads of gigs.

Trouble is, I'm not a real ginger. I'm just a ginger-bearded, pale-skinned, strawberry blond.

There's no better feeling than making your little girls laugh.

I wanted to be a comedian. And I did that so much in high school, I couldn't get a girlfriend.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

I'm not good at baking. My girlfriend bakes phenomenally, though.

I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.

I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred Armisen laugh at a scene or Bill Hader or Seth Meyers give me a compliment.

I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

I'm glad I did 'Married... with Children,' and I liked making all that money, and we all had a lot of laughs.

My wife has joked that if anything ever happened to me, she'd gladly live out her life without anyone else around. I think it bugs her I'm home all the time; such is the life cycle of the cartoonist, however.

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

I don't mind being the funny character rather than the glamorous one, although I'm happy to do both.

In America, funny women are allowed to be glamorous and funny, but over here, you're not.

'Bridgerton' is a lot like the period dramas that you know and love, but nothing like it's forerunner. It's faster, funny, sexier, and more glamorous.

I used to watch 'The Honeymooners' and laughed so much I'd fog up the inside of the lenses of my glasses.

People like me doing comedy, especially after 'Khatron Ke Khiladi,' where they got a glimpse.

I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s.

I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.

My son has dubbed me 'the Glove'.

Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what's already great material - and also, we're like, 'Who is even watching this? Let's just go for it.'