Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject. ”

I look at things logically. The humor I do is to go from A to B to C to D, and F is the funny. ”

Most people are used to the T.V. comedy method of one joke every 18 seconds. And that's why it's not funny... There's no time for anything to develop. ”

There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do. ”

I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to do with music. I made a disparaging comment about McDonald's on Twitter once and people flipped out on me. ”

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to. ”

Early on in my career, when I had basically been a sitcom actor for all of these years, and I made my first movies, and they were comedies, and they were successes, it was very important for me to stretch, and 'Parenthood' was one of those films. Even though it was a comedy, there was a great deal of authentic drama in the piece as well. ”

Bill Watterson, creator of the extremely popular 'Calvin and Hobbes,' did know when to quit and closed up shop while Calvin and his tiger were just about as fresh and funny as they had been on their first day in newspapers. ”

My comedy is kind of a counteraction to some of the comedy I don't like. Or things I don't like. ”

I was always interested in comedy, like when I was 5 years old. I watched 'I Love Lucy' and 'Benny Hill.' I would always joke around with my sister. My mom was into comedy, too. She would go to the video store and get a couple of movies and some stand-up comedians' tapes. ”