Quotes About Comedy

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

It's very hard to write humor.

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny.

I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer.

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

Great humorists are great insulters.

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

For years, humorous characters in cartoons have been almost exclusively male.

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.

I love to play humorous moments in dramatic shows. That's always the most fun: to keep the logic of the character in a show that's basically action-adventure and then play the comedy moments.