Quotes About Humor

I always wanted my stand-up to feel like not just a show, but like you're hanging out with someone for an hour. I like to just talk.

I love making people laugh. I just happened to do it dressed as a woman.

I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

If I'm honest, I think everything is funny. You've just got to find the right way in. When I'm at my happiest and when I'm really on it, when I feel like I'm really on good form at the moment, everything can be funny.

Yes, if I wasn't a happily married man with three children, Emma Bunton would definitely be my hot-tub fantasy date.

I'm a happy person. When a happy person makes a cruel movie, it becomes funny.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

Drama is easy. Comedy's hard.

We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.

I think people have a hard time dealing with a bunch of things at once. They can't have something be disturbing and funny at the same time. They can't have that kind of combination. Which is weird to me because I feel complicated about most things.

Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

It's harder to laugh than to cry.

And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

Amy Sedaris makes me laugh harder than anybody.

I honestly think comedy is probably the hardest stuff to do.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

One of the greatest compliments you can ever get is when you make fun of a certain sect of people and they are laughing the hardest. When we did 'Men on Film' on 'In Living Color,' gay men wrote in how much they loved it.

Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.

I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.

The hardest I've ever laughed was with Lea Michele.