I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.
The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.
In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending - the punch line - in a sense contradicts the original assumption by refusing to follow what had seemed a reasonable train of thought. Many jokes involve that simple matter of leaping outside what had appeared to be the rules of the game at the moment.
You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a secret to it, it's no big deal. Before I go out, I put a slice of bologna in each of my shoes. So when I'm on stage, I feel funny.
I have always told my family that I don't want my birthday to be celebrated and that they shouldn't get me anything, even though if they didn't I'd probably write a standup routine about it.
To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.
I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.
And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.
My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.
Am I over existing or am I over existing? That's my inside joke.
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
We realised that it was important to embrace this popcorn logic, that it works, that it's funnier when you fire 20 rounds from one tiny pistol. Then it becomes the joke, it's funnier when you pay less attention.
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.
I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.
Without context, things are not scary. Without context, like humor, horror doesn't work.
Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.
When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.
I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.
Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.
