Quotes About Humor

I would never be a contestant on my own show. I would never speak to me, and I'd never sign the release.

Good comedy can be liberating, and if I'm doing my job as a comedian, part of the joy for the audience is getting that release.

All the greatest comedians use comedy and humor to release pain and sadness, and I think that instead of wanting to live within my pain, or live within my sadness, I try to be funny and look at things with a funny view.

Writing limericks gives us a playground, a release from these conventions.

When I made 'Hera Pheri,' there was a huge poverty in Hindi cinema for comedies.

It cracks me up to see these ads for TV - for Depends or for glue for your dentures. The people in them look 55 with a hint of gray. Where are the people who are falling apart? We don't see that.

One Christmas Eve I was made to eat a thing the person who cooked it called 'caram-egg' - which was basically uncooked egg in the shape of a cowpat with the tiniest hint of caramel.

I think there are a lot of shows out there that value being hip or cool over being funny and heartfelt.

I've been blessed to have insanely hip parents who think of me as their little Chris Rock.

I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.

There is very little room for humor and personality in hip-hop.

You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

I don't think anyone is hiring me because I look like Chris Hemsworth.

There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.

I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

I didn't speak English very well, but I studied day and night so I'd be ready for my first break. When Hitchcock interviewed me I didn't understand a word be said, but I had been told that he liked to tell jokes so I watched him carefully and when I thought he was waiting for a laugh... I laughed.

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

As everybody manages to say on TV, 'Yeah, he hits it pretty far for a little guy.' Well thanks.

I'm not scared of it. I'm not shy of it or afraid of it. It's just funny to think of me as a three-hole hitter.

I found it quite funny when my teacher at secondary school saw me bowl and wanted me to throw the javelin. So I tried, and I kept hitting the back of my head!

I enjoy 'The Apprentice' and the one that's called 'Take My Life' and the other one called 'Stop Hitting Me.'

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'