Les Dawson Quotes

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.

Comedy's really subjective, you know.

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

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

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

I think everything's funny, to be honest.

Some people don't have a sense of humor about certain things, and other people do.

Any joke can be funny, but not any joke is funny. Any joke has the potential to be hilarious to you, but more importantly, the joke has the potential to not be funny to you but to someone else.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.

I have no line. If I think it's funny, it's funny.

Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

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

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

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