Self-Deprecating Jokes Quotes

I never really consider myself an awkward person, but once I got into stand-up, I kept hearing that word. The only thing I can trace it back to is that my mom had a similar sensibility. She always made people uncomfortable.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

You can say the nastiest things about yourself without offending anyone.

Trump is an amazing comedy writer without realizing it.

You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.

I laugh at myself on a daily basis.

I've been watching a ton of Ali Wong on Netflix. I love everything she does - there's a fearlessness about her.

I think that's why I've lasted this long because I love everything I make fun of! I make fun of myself first! I mean, I started my career by calling my films "trash" - the local critics used to complain that I beat the critic to the typewriter.

Watching comedy for the first time I felt absolutely on fire. I just couldn't believe there was this environment where people were being applauded for the weirdest things about themselves.

To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laugh at yourself - about your seriousness and things like that. You can get serious about seriousness. Then instead of one, you have created two diseases. Then you can get serious about that also, and you can go on and on. There is no end to it; it can go on AD NAUSEAM.

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.

I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes. They seem connected to who he really is. I like watching him, and there is no one better at turning an awkward moment into something very funny.

I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary.

I'm not afraid of poking fun at myself.

People who don't know me are going to be surprised by how much I don't take myself seriously.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'

I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I've always enjoyed it. There's just something really, really funny about someone tearing into me.

I'm all about being self-deprecating because I think it's hilarious. Any actor who takes themselves seriously just needs to stop being such a piece of s**t.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.