J. K. Rowling Quotes

The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.

I had a real passion for performing. I craved the attention. I was a goofy kid just like I am a goofy adult. So as soon as I got the bug of getting laughs and getting on stage I just couldn't stop.

I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.

Adam Sandler is a really funny guy in real life. Separate from all of the movies, that is a funny man.

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.

I don't take myself too seriously. I enjoy what I do. I enjoy making people laugh.

There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.

For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get too personal - but I look at myself as a reporter. If you can report on anything that has to do with pop culture, then why can't I make jokes about it? Yes, it hurts. But I figure that laughter sometimes starts from pain. You might wince, but then I know that I'm doing my job. The only thing I can do wrong is not be funny.

I'd rather be funny than wise.

I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.

I'm a huge fan of Adam Sandler and used to have Adam Sandler nights when I was younger. And he's so funny on the set.

I like to say it was born out of laughter.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

People basically aren't that racist. They want their laughs. If I make a white guy laugh, he's gonna come see me. He's not gonna go see the white guy who doesn't make him laugh just because that guy is white.

Let's do some comedy. I always like to add some comedy to my show. Those who've seen me before might know that.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

It was only when they'd rounded the corner toward the Penguin that we finally sat up, Laughing semi-hysterically. "Oh my God, did you see her face?" Becca asked between guffaws. "'There's something in my hair!'" "That was fantastic, Crazytop," Jason said, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. "Best master plan yet.

I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown?

A joke is necessary at this time.

So Stephanie.. you wanna say let the bodies hit the floor... I would say... let the boobies hit the floor!