Leo Rosten Quotes

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

Chris Rock is a very funny man.

But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

Gene Wilder is so funny.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Paul Rudd has a very specific brand of humor.

Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.

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

People ask me what Gillian Anderson's like to work with, and I have no idea!

A joke's a very serious thing.

I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people enjoy comedies that have a heart and soul to them.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

I think Carrot Top is hilarious.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

I'll watch Ricky Gervais in anything he does. The guy's hilarious.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

I've got a great sense of humor, and if I'm able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that's hugely flattering.

ESPN takes itself very seriously, but for some reason, I'm allowed to be the court jester.

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.