Quotes About Comedy

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer.

A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast.

I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.

So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time.

I'm the youngest in my family and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

I'm one of those guys like whatever the situation is, as long as people are cool and everybody is trying to be funny, I have a good time.

Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

A husband is living proof that a wife can take a joke.

You see, the way my bank account is set up...

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. And that's really it. You know, if I really wanted to enact social change I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

A joke is a very serious thing