John Hodgman Quotes

I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

I can't crack jokes because I don't have any.

I have a comic character - my sister said that I'm the victim of every joke I tell.

I'm just someone who likes making lots of things up and trying to be funny. That's about it.

I'd say that comedy is my God-given gift.

Russell Crowe likes to tell jokes, which I can't. I can't remember a joke to save my life. I don't have a brain for it.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.

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

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

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'm not much of a joke writer.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.

I do sarcasm really poorly.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny.

I never told a joke in my life.

I told jokes badly.