Quotes About Humor

They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.

When I learned Japanese, they say that I sounded like a Chinese with diarrhea!

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

I'm not big on the pasty because they say the pastry in the pasty can bring on indigestion.

They say the people most affected by the credit crunch are pensioners - well, let go of the handbag then, Nanna.

People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!

People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'

Inevitably, when directors work with me on a set, they say, 'This isn't what I was expecting. I thought you were going to be very serious.' But I like to stay loose and have a good time and not take myself too seriously. I think, otherwise, you get in your own way.

I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.

A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.

People come up to me in airports, they walk into the office, and they say, 'I'm going to cry; I'm going to pass out.' And I say, 'Please don't pass out; I'm not a doctor.'

I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.

Mark Watson and Paul Sinha have been exactly the same - very, very clever, and very, very thick.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

I like to call myself numerically dyslexic, but officially, I am mathematically thick.

I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.

It's curious that apart from the baroque ranting, 'Sarah & Duck' is very similar to 'The Thick Of It' - great characters, excellent writing and lots of humor!

Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

You have to have a thick skin, yes. If you're going to do something as foolhardy as standup, you've got to be able to take it on the chin if someone has a go at you.