Charles Churchill Quotes

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

I think I'm the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.

There is no Algorithm for Humor

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy. You shouldn't try to be funny, but you should try to be as honest as possible. The extreme end of honesty is usually what's funny. That's your job [as an actor]. You just have to let people see it.

Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.

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

I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

Melissa and I both say we don't write very good jokes.

Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting in the response of your listener.

There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

I have a very high respect for professional comedians. What they do astonishes me. You have to be really smart and absorb everything, repackage it, bring it back to the person, and make them laugh at themselves. I can make people laugh during my talks because they didn't come to have me make them laugh. It's added value. So my job is way easier than that of a professional comic.

In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.

It's a very important skill set for an actor to be able to bring the humor into any moment, whether you're doing drama or comedy.

I'm just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.

I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn it and you can't be taught it. I don't think that if you are not a funny person, you can fake it.

I think most of the actors that I know that I think are good are kind of funny people. There's just something about being alive to the truth of a moment that makes a good joke that also makes a good actor.

Humor disarms people. They don't feel threatened.

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

I think I'm the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people. Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny. I'm the least funny person in a room full of funny people.

The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.