Friedrich Schiller Quotes

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.

I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny because people tell me I am, but when I watch myself, it doesn't make me laugh. Does that make sense? Because I know the jokes, and to me, I feel like I'm pulling the wool over people's eyes. And there are probably people who do not enjoy what I do.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

The thing with the comedian is you can make all the jokes you want and not every joke it going to be a winner, and not every joke is going to land, there'll be some that somebody doesn't laugh at, but that's just part of the deal.

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!

I keep on repeating something told to me by an American psychologist: "When you are making a joke about someone and you are the only one to laugh, it is not a joke. It is a joke only for yourself." If people are making a joke they have the right to laugh at me but I will ignore them. Ignoring doesn't mean that you don't understand. You understand it so much that you don't want to react.

I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.

Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

Least at thine own things laugh.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

There aren't many laughs in that and I remember doing a look and everybody laughed and I just thought, wow, that's incredible how you can do that. So I did another look and they laughed again and then I remember thinking, hold on, this isn't right for this piece, you've got to stop it.