Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

It's interesting to talk to young comedians. I love it because it makes me go, 'Oh, that's how I can be funny.'

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

With comedies, it's been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out.

My secret is just surrounding myself with people who are a lot funnier than me.

No book has ever made me laugh as much as 'I, Partridge.'

some of my happiest funniest times have been spent in offices. Perhaps because the work was mudane, even the tiniest of distractions become wildly hilarious and wonderful. Actually, I'd say that 90 per cent of my doubled-over-gasping-with-laughther-laughing-so-much-that-you-can't-breathe-and-you-think-you-might-die laughing has occurred during slow days in offices.

If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.

I love doing [stand-up]. I love making people laugh no matter how. Whether it's a commercial, or a TV show, or a reality show, or a talk show, or a special, or a book. However I can make people laugh, that's what I want to do.

When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.

The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

I like to say it was born out of laughter.

It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

It was only when they'd rounded the corner toward the Penguin that we finally sat up, Laughing semi-hysterically. "Oh my God, did you see her face?" Becca asked between guffaws. "'There's something in my hair!'" "That was fantastic, Crazytop," Jason said, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. "Best master plan yet.

A joke is necessary at this time.

If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.

George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy.

I think I found it difficult though to keep a straight face when we were actually working and I wasn't supposed to be laughing.

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that the Pope is a dangerous, bigoted, medieval dinosaur, and that the Holy Ghost is a comic-book character worthy of laughter and derision.

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.