Humor Appeal Quotes

Generally, we try not to write down to kids. We really just try to write a visual, character-driven cartoon that has a lot of slapstick and really appeals to us. I guess we are just lucky that other adults find that amusing, too.

His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.

When I started 'DailyGrace,' I was dating a 26-year-old guy I thought was the funniest person in the world. My creation process every day was imagining him watching my videos and wondering, 'Will he laugh at this?' But somehow that's turned into an audience that's mostly 15-year-old girls.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

The reason you often get in comedy is because you're not getting laid.

I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.

I think it was Cosby who also said to me, 'If only 2 percent of the world thinks you're funny, you'll still fill stadiums for the rest of your life.'

I never saw anything funny in a car commercial - but that's OK. Whatever they wanted to do - it's their product and I'm the spokesperson, and I'm going to deliver.

Just because you're laughing, it doesn't mean the audience will, necessarily.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.

If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.

I was always the funny guy. Everyone wants to hang out with the funny guy.

Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at something inappropriate with their whole bodies, a guttural, visceral laugh beyond a mere "hah."

Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.

To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong!

Sometimes the name is funnier than the game itself.

I only got into comedy to get laid

I don't think know if anything's going to translate anywhere. You're making a movie, you hope it's going to be funny, you can't think about how it's going to go over.

My character is such an entertaining character that it is a whole other element to the show, so once they put me and Carmella together it was like, okay, now I have something to do.

If I'm going to be completely honest, I did not get the appeal of IFC's 'Portlandia' initially.

When I walk out on stage, I don't know who's in the audience. To me, in my little fat skull, the laugh is just the widest demographic you can get.

But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it.

Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

It used to be if you wanted to do a newspaper comic, you had to appeal to a pretty big chunk of the newspaper's readership for them to want to keep you around. 'Dilbert' would be office humor, but even that is pretty widely experienced.