Quotes About Humor

I was a very bad accountant. I knew the book theory, but I didn't have the heart for it. I did it for six months, and my job was to distract the auditors with jokes.

I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.

Jerry Seinfeld has an interesting theory. He goes, '20 pounds up or down, and you lose your funny.'

When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.

I am a complete sucker for funny films. There is something so therapeutic about laughing until you cry.

I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.

I'd make a terrible therapist.

I love hoovering. People go to therapists; I've got a Hoover.

I treat my cat like she's my therapist or something, because I talk to her all the time, and as she's gotten older, she talks back. It's pretty funny.

I'm too neurotic to be a therapist.

I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to figure out a way to do it on stage.

I hate comics who look at comedy as therapy. But at least it gets things out of my system in a funny way.

I kind of see it as my personal therapy to get on stage and do characters.

Standup is a form of therapy. It is OK to tell problems to your audience as long as you are being honest and not boring them. I tell them that I am saving $75 an hour when I talk to them instead of a therapist.

We are indulging in therapy involuntarily when we chose to laugh.

Stand-up is good therapy.

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.

I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Do you know what they say about big hands? Big gloves!