Quotes About Humor

I do feel it's tougher to make a comic scene work than performing an intense scene, for example.

We always say in the Obama world, in the toughest times, you can laugh or you can cry, so you might as well laugh.

I realized comedy is toughest thing to handle, although I started with theatre and did several stage plays.

Comedy is the toughest. If it goes little bit here and there, and your partner doesn't cover up for you, then everything can go wrong.

I think playing a comic role is the toughest job for an actor; to put glycerin and cry is easy, but to make people laugh is difficult.

Comedy is very tough to do, it never gets the awards but it's the toughest task.

Black audiences are probably the toughest for me to make laugh. I've gotten pretty good at performing for them, but it's still a challenge.

I genuinely like to make people laugh. It is one of the toughest things to do.

As everyone knows, comedy is the toughest emotion to handle. Everything about it is difficult - writing, directing and acting.

Ross Noble at the Leicester De Montfort Hall on his Randomist tour - it's the only time I've hurt from laughing at a standup comedian.

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Comedy Tour,' don't expect that when you come see me by myself, 'cause it's a little rougher.

We're like a middle-aged boy band on tour.

I've been on the tour for 23 years and anybody who knows me knows that I am a jokester.

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'

New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.

If you watch the 'Blue Collar Tour,' I was probably the least redneck of everybody.

Sometimes on a tour bus, we watch comedy when it's slow.

I toured as a nightclub comedian and did some television in New York.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am.

I don't know why comedians moan about touring; you get driven to a town, stay in a hotel, work for an hour and a half with nice people, and eat fatty service station food. There's nothing not to like.

My mum and dad came from lower-working-class Glasgow, which was tough. Literally, if you see a cat there with a tail, it's a tourist.

Once, during one of the jubilee tours, I was in the car immediately behind theirs and I watched Prince Philip telling the Queen a story. He kept her laughing for 20 minutes.

I do write a lot of stuff for my tours. I think I just want to give people their money's worth. They've paid to come and see jokes so I try to give them as many as I can.