David Lloyd George Quotes

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

I'm totally comfortable not being as funny as Larry David.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

We have a curious relationship with 'funny' in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

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