Duncan Jones Quotes

The British are so funny.

I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.

I love dry British humor. I love to sketch in my off time. I love tequila.

I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.

I talked about everything, man. I've always written material that everyone can laugh at. I talked about growing up. I did a lot of physical comedy. That was my thing. I was a physical comedian. I did anything and everything from running on a treadmill, I can paint a picture on stage of anything.

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line... I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.

The skill of a good actor is to make it always seem like you're in that fantastically spontaneous moment. Very often, a stand-up comedian has a different instinct, which is to reinvent. Once you've laid down some material, and made them laugh, you move on and find some new material.

I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage? I am all for it.

There's something therapeutic about connecting with an audience - when there's something really sort of odd or silly that you think is funny, and conveying it to an audience.

I like bowling. It's just one of those things where I can do so many jokes about it because I do know bowling. Somebody once said, "The whitest things in the world are Jim Gaffigan and bowling."

If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so you can figure out the ultimate nature of that thing.

I didn't create Bugs Bunny. You know what I mean? I can't get mad because I'm the third-best Bugs Bunny in the world.

An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

I have the kind of show that reminds you of your problems, and then I talk about other problems you didn't even know you had until tonight.

I probably would never be able to direct a comedy because I'm not that funny. I don't have that funny bone in me, so it wouldn't be a natural fit. But I love the world of science fiction, and I love the world of technology and science too.

Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.

I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.