Humor Risk Quotes

Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your performance.

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

I have no shame when it comes to making people laugh. I don't care what I look like.

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

A joke bombing on stage doesn't bother me, especially if it's intended to bomb.

It took forever for me to get work because I was a political comic, and now it's become good business, and God knows how long that'll last. You have to do it night after night after night to kind of make it. I still find myself on 'Piers Morgan' or on some show and I think, 'I hope this is funny.'

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

A boring speech can be just a boring speech. But a speech with a joke that falls flat is awful. I hate it. That's why I think it's easier to hate a comedy. If a drama doesn't land, it's boring; if a joke doesn't land - you hate that.

I'm scared of slipping up, of just doing a joke that makes me laugh.

It's easy to be silly in real life, but making stuff up onstage, that seemed hard. Better to be the funny person off-the-cuff in the room than to risk being unfunny onstage.

I have a humorous side but these days humour can be a risky thing.

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.