Jerry Lewis Quotes

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Comedy can do so much more than make you laugh.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.

I like humor.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedy should be easy, not laboured.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

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

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

Whatever makes you laugh is fine, and all we can do as comedy professionals is try to steer you towards something that we think is a little better - but not put you down or just perplex you in the process.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

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

Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing.

I do love jokes.

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

For me, humor is everything!

To me, comedy is a game.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.