Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

Sometimes my mum is very disapproving of my comedy. ”

What they do in America in all those sitcoms is hire glamorous girls and they're never that funny... that's because they've never had to develop a personality because they're hot. ”

In comedy, it's not the glamorous, beautiful people that are great at comedy. They're either every man or every woman, they're either quite tall and lanky or shorter and fatter or have a big nose. They have something physically about them that makes them into a comic stereotype. ”

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives. ”

Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often dressed up as an older, disheveled woman. ”

That's the funny thing about time. It is only in looking back that it's easy to connect the dots. To see exactly why everything needed to happen the way that it did. ”

I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem. ”

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. ”

The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor. ”

If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice. ”