Bill Engvall Quotes

I like humor.

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

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

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

There is a universality to comedy.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.