Quotes About Humor

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

I was paid to be cheeky and people clapped me for it.

I was on stage and I was like I will pay someone to do my time, not only will I expect NOT to be paid, but I will pay someone if I can run off stage right now. It was so bad.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

The wake up machine was actually pretty painful after some time.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

A joke is just a paintbrush. It takes someone funny to paint something beautiful.

If I were a painter, you'd be calling me Shaqcasso.

I started out with three creative jobs - painter, janitor and gag writer.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

I find myself chatting with my paintings, not deep and meaningful stuff, but things like 'hey there buddy' and 'oh, look what I did to your nose!'

I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.

Brad Paisley is very funny. Who else is funny? I think Reba McEntire is very funny.

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

India Pakistan' will be on the lines of 'Oru Kal Oru Kannadi' and 'Kalakalappu.'

Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.