Quotes About Humor

I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.

I just knew it would get a big laugh when people saw the 'Flying Nun' throwing the bird to a highway patrolman.

I try to play Hogan in an off-hand throwing lines way.

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

I am a bit sassy, with some sarcasm thrown into the mix, but stoic at the same time - and brash.

To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

I still get knickers thrown on stage, but not as much as they used to. In fact, I get bloke's boxer shorts thrown on and someone rolled a coconut on stage the other night.

When a dramatic actor does a funny film, people are like, 'Wonderful! I didn't know he was funny!' But when it flips, people can get really thrown by it.

Three high schools. I was funny. I thought I was being funny. I just had an opinion about everything that was said in school, so that got me thrown out.

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

I love Australia! I got a boot thrown at me there.

I've never thrown a javelin. What kind of sport is that? It's hilarious.

I have the comedian's fear of bottles flying. I've never been bottled off, but I have had things thrown at me. Bag of crisps. And there's still a part of me, when I sit in an audience, that thinks people are going to start heckling the play.

One thing that I struggled with was not corpsing when you're being thrown stuff that's absolutely hilarious by the other actors.

A vote for me is a vote completely thrown away.

I think on stage I would like a cheeseburger to be thrown at me.

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.

Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it.

When life throws not-so-serious curveballs, sometimes you need to embrace it, and laugh it off with the support of your friends, and let's be honest, pancakes always make everything better.

I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane.

Comedian sort of enjoys the darkness because, essentially, he's a thug. He's just not a nice guy.

They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.

My entire book was typed with three fingers and a very confident space-bar thumb.

I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.