Eric Idle Quotes

Playing on stereotypes was meant to be humorous. If it doesn't tickle you in certain spots, it's not going to be funny. Falling down the stairs is a seriously dangerous thing, but watching it is HILARIOUS!

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it.

People don't get my sense of humour.

I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes.

It's easier to find the joke in something when you think, 'This - this is ridiculous.'

You hear people say, 'We take our Tennessee Williams very seriously. There is no laughter here.' It's full of humor! Not to laugh is a big, bad mistake!

I never have been able to understand where the humor comes from.

I feel like I don't really have a sense of humor... I don't know if I could characterize it dark or light. I just - I do like humor.

I've been called a funny person for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting.

Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.

What I've understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.