Allison Pearson Quotes

I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.

I make jokes. That's what I do.

The beauty of comedy is, when people come to a comedy club, there is a certain veil of reality suspended.

If the social evolution leads to jokes, I use them.

I think I'm a funny guy.

I'm not mean. I can't do a roast.

If my mum or my wife says that something isn't funny, I know I've struck gold.

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

I think I hang out with some pretty witty people, but we're never that funny.

Comedy is just an unspoken language. Everybody understands it. Funny is funny. When it's not funny, they'll let you know.

I do not seem like a funny guy.

Just be funny. Funny always goes over well, so try to think of something funny to break the ice rather than being weird or using pickup lines.

I love comedy. It's something that I think Marvel does so well, and it's one of the reasons I love Marvel so much is the quips that you get: that kind of underlying everything and cutting through the very heavy emotional stuff.

I don't like jokes.

I'd like to think I'm funny.

I always like to make some jokes, sometimes.

Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.

They're just jokes, people. They can't all be funny.

Have you ever noticed when people stop laughing, they say, 'Oh dear?'

I've grown up around some incredibly funny people, which has been a blessing and curse because now I've been completely spoiled in terms of what I find funny.

I have a sense of humor, and sometimes it gets me into trouble.

Humour is learned behaviour, and I know exactly why I learned to be funny. I did it from a very early age. My dad was a hilarious man, and the way we interacted was being silly together. It was a way to hold his attention.

Humor is important. Nothing against bands that are always a downer, but the reality is - it just becomes theater.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

I would love to make a sarcastic film; I am so sarcastic that even my kids are now getting used to my sarcasm. You see it a lot in British comedy because that's their sense of humour.