Quotes About Humor

I feel that I owe a lot to SpongeBob and all Bikini Bottom for helping me figure out what I thought was funny and entertaining.

I owe a lot to 'SpongeBob.'

I do enjoy working with Ryan although he owes me money.

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Back when Jerry Seinfeld was just another comedian hanging around the clubs, I'd imitate him to amuse myself and the other comics. The club owners would say, 'What are you doing that for? Nobody knows him.'

I like to pace onstage.

What I love about 'The Office' is the fast pace and the zaniness of those characters.

All those zany comedies have instilled a sense of pace in me.

One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace.

Some nights I'm funny with the between-song commentary, some nights I'm not. I have no control over this. I pace the stage a lot and struggle with the mic stand in a ridiculous way.

If you are a stand-up you can hone your material over successive performances, based on the audience response. Changing a single word or altering the pace or emphasis can make a previously failed witticism work.

I still think I'm 28. I'm 73. I think I'm 28, though, except that I won't get into a fight with anybody because I just had a pacemaker put in.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

There is a rhythm to a good joke, a certain pacing.

My group of friends, we sort of go at each other pretty hard sometimes. And it's half performance, half truth that you can say cutting things to your friends that might be a little true, but as long as you package it in a joke, it becomes a little more palatable.

Like you don't watch 'Octopussy' or any Bond film for the story. You see it for the smart lines, the glamour, the overall package.

I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

My father would read me Page Six instead of, like, kids' stories.

We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.