Good-Natured Ribbing Quotes

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

I'm such a goofball - I need someone who can make fun of me.

When I was a kid everyone used to call me pork 'n.

People called me 'Slim' and 'Daddy Long Legs.' My best friend Martine named me Daddy Long Legs after she saw me running track. She was making fun of me!

I'm the one who is always bantering. Millie Bright and Rach Daly are pretty bad. Jill Scott is up there, too, but I'm probably the one who initiates it all, and people come back at me.

I have a crazy sense of humor so if someone is just trying to be rude to me, or if you can tell that someone is angry for no reason, I like to entertain them.

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

I think, in moderation, taunting is a part of life.

I'm always making fun of myself and my friends.

I like a girl who does not take me seriously, you know? It's important to be able to laugh at each other.

I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for.

I was giving some of my teammates a hard time, saying I've got more pop than they do.

It was an old cricket coach who started calling me Fred - as in Flintstone. There are far worse things to be called in the dressing room.

My momma will roast my friends all of the time. If you're one of my friends, and you meet my mom for the first time, she will definitely roast you in a polite way. It's just to test your bars.

To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby. The swapping of insults, like the fighting between brothers, becomes the seal of the male bonding.

You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

It's so funny: at 'SNL,' Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me.

People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.

When you know someone you can make a little more fun of them without them getting offended.

I can make fun of someone and still be a fan.

What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things. And I'm never mean-spirited. See, the word insult means some guy who's a real unkind human being. But I don't do that, because otherwise I wouldn't be headlining all these years, thank god, and all these people showing up to see me.

Our family were very quick to laugh at each other.