Quotes About Humor

Yes, I've seen Louis CK. I wouldn't in any way make a degrading remark about Louis CK, but the question is do I think anyone is funny? And the answer is not too many people. He might fit right in there.

Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.

Too many people take the living experience too seriously.

I think too many people take life too seriously. I'm having a ball!

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

There's not too much Edge in Adam Copeland, but there's a little bit of my sarcasm and my sense of humor, I guess, but I'm not a sleazy, raving maniac like the character of Edge could be.

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'

My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

Cara Delevingne and I took an eyebrow selfie. We both have prominent eyebrows, but hers are much better than mine. Maybe we should do a swap.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

From the very beginning, I started doing music performances with a lot of theatrical aspects to them, where humor was a part of it but not necessarily had to be. Humor is just another tool to make the palette more rich and interesting for myself and eventually for the public. It's a great way to break out of convention.

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.

Everything serious in the world is well approached by humour. It's a powerful and often quite subversive tool. I suppose there is an argument that could be made against me for being frivolous, but I do think a laugh is a very generous thing to give.

I really believe that comedy is an incredible tool, and you can use it in many ways.