Quotes About Humor

I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it.

The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.

I think the greatest gift your parents can give you if you want to be a comedian is good taste.

My sister was very, very beautiful and I was very not. Doing comedy is the greatest thing ever because you don't have to do that, and I've since learned to let go of that.

To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.

Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.

I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

I can do a Green Day joke and people actually get it.

Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.

I can laugh at my own grief.

In Maori culture there's a lot of humor and just as quickly we are able to express grief.

Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

I think 'Nathan for You' is a really funny show, along with 'The Grinder' and 'Baskets.' I really like 'Man Seeking Woman.' It's the coolest show because they just do weird stuff, and it doesn't feel weird; they make it normal somehow, which I applaud. And 'Broad City' - I think those guys are awesome.

I really like gross Chinese things.

It's never a matter ever, ever - are - we're never trying to gross anybody out, or ever are we trying to shock people. We're just trying to make it funny in a way that makes the audience go, 'You know, that was the first joke they thought of, and they weren't afraid to do it.'

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.

My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.

When we had Brian Cox in 'Super Troopers,' we learned that when you put a great actor in the center of our lunacy, it grounds everything.

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.