Quotes About Comedy

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.

I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.

I'm a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch.

Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That immigrant Jewish humor is still with us.

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.

I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny.

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does not seem ideal for my comedy and see how it works.

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Race makes things funny. A black guy driving in NASCAR: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Tide: not funny. A black guy driving a car sponsored by Aunt Jemima: hilarious.

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny.

Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.

Your husband is lazy if coffee doesn't keep him awake - even when it's hot and being spilled on him.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.