Quotes About Comedy

The really authentic thing about humor is that anyone can pretend to be serious. Anyone who's ever had a job - in fact, we're pretending to be serious now, more or less.

I like girls who are funny with a warped sense of humor.

I think I have a good sense of humor, but I'm not, like, a joke-teller. I get the jokes, which is sometimes half the battle. Believe me, I have no idea why anyone hires me.

I feel very very old. My hair hurts. I have buttocks all over my body and I can't even smoke properly any more. I don't have lungs, I just have two poppadoms in here.

I was pretty much a child of Monty Python. I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

Anxiety and hostility seem to be a great part of good and bad humor. Examining humor too closely does seem to destroy it.

I would imagine that Bret would taste like a warm goat cheese, and Jemaine would taste like harvati with dill. Hmm...I'm hungry actually.

I'm more of a clown, a tragic clown. Yeah. I just like humor to come out of characters.

Have you ever thought about toothpaste? Ellen has! And she makes a point about all of the types of toothpaste that Colgate offers!

I'm making fun of myself and I think I'm making fun of all men in our desperate, desperate attempt to understand the people we're with and hopefully through humor have them understand us.

Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

You have to realize that Mel [Gibson], he's a funny guy. He's got a wicked sense of humor.

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

Get a sense of humor. If you don't, it'll be incredibly frustrating.

I don't think every joke has to be so dadgum cerebral. I mix it up really good, because that's the kind of humor I like. I like the goofy one-liner type stuff.

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.

When you involved in an accident and someone asks "are you alright?" Yes fine thanks, I'll just pick up my limbs and be off.