Jeff Garlin Quotes

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.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

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

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

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.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

If you go on the Internet and type in 'Lee Ryan one liners,' I think I'm on par with Gandhi.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

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.

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.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.

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.