Quotes About Comedy

Conan O'Brien

The funniest people are the saddest once

The funniest people are the saddest ones

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

My favorite show is America's Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I'm laughing my head off!

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

There's nothing worse than a celebrity trying to be funny. Unless it's a politician trying to be serious.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

At CBS, I'm in your house. I'm mindful of that. When I do standup, you're in my home and I can say what I want to.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that.

I don't think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

The most prolific teachers of critical thinking in my lifetime are stand-up comedians

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

In L.A., a lot of comics live here, but we don't get to spend that much time together because we've got to drive 45 minutes home, or do another set. So in San Francisco we can hang out, go for dinner - the community aspect of it is really lovely, as well as seeing people's shows that you don't normally get to see a longer version of.

I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.

Eventually, somewhere - be it on the Internet or somewhere else - I will host some version of 'The Daily Show.'

A sketch should be about two to three minutes, which is basically what most songs are. They're usually done by groups. Good examples of each build and have different parts and twists in them. I guess sketch would be the comedy version of music.

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.

About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.'