I don't like comedy that makes me feel worse about the world than I already felt before I turned it on.
I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
I think pompous accents are inherently funnier.
I thought I had more of a European sense of humour than the average American comic.
I do come across people who don't like me, don't like my comedy, don't think it's funny, it's too cutesy, or whatever they hate. And it's like, 'Okay. That's your opinion. Somebody liked it, so that's good.' Hopefully it balances out.
I enjoy making people laugh, but what I find funny and put online, others might misconstrue and find jerkish.
I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
Women are under-represented in TV comedy for a variety of reasons, the hackneyed 'fear that women aren't funny' being one of them.
Americans just don't understand dry wit.
People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.
Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.
All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
I think the second you think that you're funny is when you stop being funny.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
Playing on stereotypes was meant to be humorous. If it doesn't tickle you in certain spots, it's not going to be funny. Falling down the stairs is a seriously dangerous thing, but watching it is HILARIOUS!
The thing I have learned, especially in the Internet age, probably the easiest thing in the world is to declare that something is not funny. I mean it's not actually humor to say something is not funny, but it is viewed by a lot of people - and by that I mean mainly snarky young Internet men - as a kind of humor in and of itself is putting down other people's efforts at humor. And I don't care that much anymore about that because I know how easy that is to do.
I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into me and said hello, I would say hello back, politely. And that would be it.
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
The British are so funny.
I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now.
I've said before I think the best thing about social media is that it brings people together and the worst thing about social media is that it brings people together. You're assuming that the people following you know what type of person you are and what type of humour you have.
It's not hard for me to be funny. But it's really hard. I don't think a lot of people are funny. I meet a lot of people, and most of them aren't funny.
