David Cross Quotes

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

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

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

If you like dry humor, Henrik Stenson thinks he's very funny, but I think I'm very funny in a dry sense as well.

In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.

I like humor.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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.

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.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

I'm able to see humor in a lot of things.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.