Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus. ”

I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing. ”

It was pretty clear that I was a funny guy, just as a guy. ”

I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford. ”

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor. ”

I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year. ”

What's funny is funny. The same thing that made you laugh a hundred years ago makes you laugh now. ”

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me. ”

Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have. ”

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was. ”