A. E. Housman Quotes

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.

I don't just try to be funny.

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

The thing is, I was never really a comedian - a comedian would scoff at the notion of me as a comedian because I've never done anything, really. I've always just been some guy who's funny.

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.

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.

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

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

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

My instincts are not comedic.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

Most of my songs make fun of myself.

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

I'm just not very funny.