Orlando Aloysius Battista Quotes

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

For comedy, timing is key.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

I like comedy as a group sport.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

Nothing like a great comedy. I love to laugh!

I told jokes badly.

There's an art to comedy.

I'm not a good joke teller.

I just try to deliver the laughs every time I get the opportunity.

I never get offered comedy.

Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day.

Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

Several of my uncles are comedians. My father is a comedian; my grandfather was known for his jokes. It definitely runs in the family.

You gotta have fun with a song, make somebody laugh. You gotta have character. A hard punchline can make you laugh, but you gotta know how to say it.

Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

It was a very funny conference. I knew [Christopher Hitchens] before that. He had always been a good angel to me. He once stole a phrase from me that came out of his mouth on television. I saw his eyes move sideways. I thought, It's alright, you can have it! The conference was light on women. Salman Rushdie showed up, they were doing their own thing. I didn't feel neglected!

There are two kinds of jokes - funny jokes and Jack Benny jokes.

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.