Jon Hamm Quotes

When you're around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that's just naturally - if you want to do it - it's going to make you better.

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.

I was always writing. I was writing in high school because it was a really competitive school for class clowns; I used to have to write all of my snaps and my disses the night before and then act like I was making it up the next day.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

I wish I had the ability to crack wise, generally. You know, without getting punched. There's no way I could do it while getting beaten up. Definitely.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes.

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

Being funny is very complex.

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.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

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

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.