Jimmy Carr Quotes

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

I do enjoy Dennis Miller, I do enjoy Chris Rock when they do their political humor, but it's never been my goal... I love relatable humor.

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

He's a very funny and very nice man. When you read the script, you want to stick with it. But when you're with Eddie Murphy you've got to improvise. He's always making jokes and making me crack up when the camera's on.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

The business of entertainment is business first. I do a comic strip; the job, the business, is to be funny. If I’m not funny, the politics don’t matter, because no one will read it.

My only rule about a joke is that it should be funny.

A lot of people can find something to laugh at in my humor, I guess.

Paul Rudd has a very specific brand of humor.

I really love standup because it's something that I've been literally doing for 40 years, which means I'm a thousand years old.

All I care about is making jokes that are funny and making people laugh.

I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'

Obama isn't funny.

It's hard to go back and be constantly funny.

The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

I'm actually a big fan of Kathy Griffin because I think she's really funny. I think she's really self-deprecating, which is something I like to see in a comedian. I think those are really the best comedians: people who can make fun of themselves.

What I love about comedy is that it's unquestionably working. There are varying degrees of that, where there's something that makes you smile and is funny versus something that makes you hysterically laugh.

When I was doing research on the M.C.s and spending time with these cats, one of the things that struck me and made me realize that I could deliver this world to an audience was their really dark and acute sense of humor.

I think I'm accidentally funny more so than thinking of it as a craft. I'm in awe of those comedians that know how to hit it again and again and again.