Humor Approach Quotes

I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

At the end of the day, I'm not really trying to make a statement with any of my standup.

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!

I've had ideas for romantic comedies, but it would be a much more darkly comic version than what usually sells tickets.

I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

A comic says funny things. A comedian says things funny.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me and said, "Gee, that's like Uncle David", or "That's like a friend of mine.". And they related through that. I didn't make fun of them. I made fun of me.

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

I make people laugh hard; I'm a comic, that's just the way it is. And I make them laugh because I'm funny, not because I'm filthy. The subject matter is dirty, but the pictures I paint are really funny. A lot of comics don't understand that that's what it's about. It's just, "I'll be dirty and they'll laugh." Nobody's becoming a superstar that way.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

None of my comedy depended on looks. I never did tons of fat jokes.

In my brain, it's simple: On the podcast, we're really never serious about anything, ever.

I'm not a political comic at all, so it would be weird if I just turned into a preachy, sort-of political commentator.

I had written for Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman in the past. Jimmy had a different voice, and different priorities. He couldn't be the bad guy in the joke; he couldn't upset people, really.

The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.

I've never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.

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.

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

The times I've tried not to be funny, it's never worked, and the times I'm trying not to be dark and just be funny, that never works, either. As varied as my subject matter is, I think the worldview is pretty consistent: seeing darkness and seeing humor.

I always think of myself as a comedy feeder type person, and that feeder lets themselves get out of your comfort zone as opposed to straight stand up; that feels like honing one skill, like honing one point of view.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.