Jack Dee Quotes

The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny.

I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live.

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.

Comedy is really best when watched with other people, and I don't really understand people who sit at home watching comedy movies on Netflix.

I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh.

I got to work with Rachel Dratch, and she just had such a funny, roll-with-it attitude when she would approach the stage and could turn anything into a gem.

I think everybody would admit that we've got a sense of humor.

And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same gag.

We're all basically decent human beings so if 3,000 people are laughing at a joke then it's worth telling.

Being a fan of comedy, it's so unique, in their own voice. I was really stoked to be able to participate. They're so great at just coming up with stuff on the fly and making stuff funny.

If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

One of the things about crowd work that's so exciting is when you discover a character in the audience who's interesting or funny, who you can vibe off of. If someone's got a weird job that you can make reference to throughout, or you can bring that person onstage - humiliate them, or celebrate them! You can put people in conversation with one another. The best is when something that they're doing can reflect back on something that you're doing.

I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life. I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched Saturday Night Live religiously. I've just been a fan of comedy, my whole life.

There's something very edgy about Bill Murray out there improvising.

You wouldn't know how to perform a sketch that you don't find funny. You just couldn't do it.

I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation.

You know, I'm a big comedy fan.

I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them.

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

For doing comedy, a sense of humor is a must!

The older you get, the funnier fart jokes are.