Ellie Kemper Quotes

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

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

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.

I'm just not very funny.

I don't think I'm funny.

I don't just try to be funny.

I do sarcasm really poorly.

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

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

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

I do not have a sense of humor of any recognizable sort.

There's nothing worse than trying to be funny and not being funny.

I'm not a funny person.

Everyone wants to be funny. Maybe not everyone, but to an extent.

People love self-deprecating humor.

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.

I never thought I was funny.

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.