Humor Legacy Quotes

I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me.

I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.

I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that I'm gone.

I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

Humor strips dominated what were called the funny papers early in the century, but by the 1920s and '30s, adventure strips had taken over. With 'Beetle Bailey,' I revived the funny part of the funny papers, and I'd be proud to be remembered for that.

My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag.

My parents' marriage is a gift to everyone around them - 60 years of making their kids laugh. How many parents are actually funny?

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

Obviously, it's the Lucille Balls of the world who helped make humor accessible to women and in a voice that women related to. I just wanted to continue that.

My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that's my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

My grandmother was very funny. It skipped a generation.