Dave Barry Quotes

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

I've always been attracted to humor and funny people in general. It's a joy to make people laugh, but it's not as fun as laughing yourself.

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family.

But I really believe that if you have the ability, there is an obligation to make people laugh

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring.

We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

I'd rather be funny than wise.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

I'll do almost anything for a laugh.

I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.

I'm a sucker for a good sense of humor.

There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

Everything I do is intended to make people laugh and think. I just think something is funny, it's not hurting anybody, not stabbing anybody, not shooting anybody, not making anybody watch me perform. There are thousands of comedians, don't come see me because it's not like I hide it.

If life a joke then I’m waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I’m bout the bun.

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.