Quotes About Comedy

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

I tell the most horrible jokes.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them.

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.

When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line.

I only have eight jokes, but I can do 'em over a two-hour period of time.

Most young comedians would be lying to say that they weren't huge Weird Al fans when they were kids. Weird Al is probably the first person I ever realized had a career that was just making jokes.

When I watch a comedy that's just hitting you over the head with jokes constantly, some really hit, but if they miss, you're like, 'Eh.'

Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes.

I'd get home at 3:30 A.M. from the bar after my shift ended at 1. I'd write jokes, film it, and then sleep. So I did that for two years.

I don't like long jokes. I like stories rather than setup punchlines.

My goal is to be exactly how I am offstage - although I realize I'm supposed to punctuate it with jokes.

I'm one of the most insecure people in the world, always have been, and when you're a fat kid, you try to make the fat jokes before other people make them.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.

Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.

I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.