Dave Barry Quotes

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh.

Comedy can become quite addictive actually.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

[As a kid] I did enjoy making people laugh but I was also attracted to funny people. I'm [still] quite happy to not be the one trying to make other people laugh. I'm happy laughing at someone else. I enjoy laughing and I'll happily be the one just laughing all night if you can make me laugh.

I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

I'm funny because I'm funny. And there's more to offer.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

You never forget people who make you laugh.

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

Steve Rannazzisi, Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, Jon Lajoie - and they're such funny guys that they bring their own sort of twist to it all.

The idea of surprise is part of what makes something funny, or what gets a reaction. At least when I'm an audience member, after you hear a joke so many times it's not as funny because it loses its surprise or its twist. So I think funny has to do with surprise.

You should have seen his face when I started taking my clothes off. Priceless.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

I'm amused by a lot of things. I love humor. I'm constantly joking around.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, it doesn't get any reaction whatsoever.

Oh come on Pam, they're funny. They're like humans but miniature...tea cup humans!

It's just thinking of funny things that will amuse us and entertain us and we'll come and do it.

I wanted to be funny for people who didn't care about fashion at all, to just to kind of exist as a silly character.

There's a reason people love watching blooper reels of actors falling about laughing.

I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life. I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched Saturday Night Live religiously. I've just been a fan of comedy, my whole life.

There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.

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.