Simon Helberg Quotes

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or a god, which some people do. This might just be in America, but 'stand-up comedy' is something very particular that I don't particularly relate to.

People ask me if they can send me material, and some people give or send it to me unsolicited, but I rarely buy jokes.

I still like farts. I still think farts are some of the funniest things.

There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.

People have a sense of humor, even if it's not a good one, and everybody has stakes.

Even the idea of a fart makes me laugh. Saying the word 'fart' makes me laugh. I have iFart on my phone. I have remote whoopee cushions. Farts. To me, there's nothing funnier.

Comedy has to have momentum in order for it to keep moving along.

I think with romantic comedies it's a lot about tone, because different romantic comedies have different tones.

Robin Williams, another person I didn't know. He is genuinely hilarious.

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.

There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

Hilarious, dude. You should, like, have your own show.

I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give rest of us a chance?! No, his Touch Of Frost is terrific and a wonderful antidote to the po-faced detective shows around at the moment. Anyway, I can't retire. I have a wife and five chickens to feed.

I found out if you're a funny guy, a lot of people like you.

I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they're people of any stripes of life.

If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which has got to be the funniest thing on YouTube. He's so courageous.

I feel like comedy is doing well right now because there's so many avenues to be seen. Whether it's through the Internet with social media or web videos and now there's so many networks and TV shows.

I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it.

I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.

When I was a little kid I loved the Marx brothers and discovered Monty Python when I was 10 or 11-years-old. I used to take a tape recorder and hold it up in front of the TV to record entire episodes to play over and over again, so that I could memorise it.

When somebody is doing something really funny, in real life and as a performer, my instinct is to join them.

In Hollywood, it's hard to be funny, because all the big jokes are in Washington.