Quotes About Humor

If you're funny and working in education, I think the perception is that you're either inspirational or awful. So which was I? I suppose that depends on who you talk to.

My idea of working out is drinking whiskey - instead of beer.

I love being Latina. I love our values, the way we're so in touch with others, our dark humor, how fun we are, how relaxed we are. I love how hard working, independent, and ambitious we are.

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

Working on the Dave Chappelle show was amazing.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

You can see from the curves that I'm not working out - it's just jelly!

With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

The BBC say we need more working-class comedies, which is rubbish. We need funny comedies; it doesn't matter where they come from.

I think I'm going to do a workout tape called 'Hand to God to Abs of Steel.'

Work is in the word 'workout.' But I try to put some levity to it because you've got to want to come back.

Tosh.0' - I consider it my ab workout from laughing so hard.

Have you walked around in heels? That's a workout. But like all good gay men, I have a gym membership.

Put it this way: I can wear three wigs at one time and three pairs of eyelashes. That's some strength there. And I roll my eyes extensively, so they get a good workout on a daily basis.

Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.

Really, when people put together the highlight reels of the classic moments from 'Friends,' 'Seinfeld,' 'Cheers,' even 'MASH,' they're full of broad slapstick comedy. Call it cheap or lowbrow, but it works and it works for people of all ages.

It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.

I use mother-in-law jokes, kid jokes, tax jokes - anything that works.

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.