Quotes About Levity

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

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

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.