A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.
Every joke has its origin - the punching people in the face joke. It hurts like hell to get punched in the face.
Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me. I was just inherently funny when I was a kid.
The difference between comedians and the general public is that we are meant to be funnier. And when you've got politicians giving material so easy that the general public is doing it, what is the necessity of us anymore?
A lot of joking stems from a very dark place a bit.
The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
I'm a fun-loving guy. We are basically from Amritsar and ours is a chilled-out family. I think I have got my humour from my mother.
My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.
I was at lunch with some friends one day, and we looked down at our table - blond pasta, blond pizza - and then someone joked, 'Blonde salad,' and it stuck.
I got my sense of humor from my grandmother. You know, my grandmother was very funny.
Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.
A man in the crowd asks: Hey Rodney, how'd you get started? Rodney: I was 12 years old, alone in my room, and I got started!
We just thought of 'Boosh' as an extension of our childhoods in a way, the stuff we had grown up on and loved: 'Monty Python,' The Goodies, Frank Zappa. It spoke to a certain type of person, and we just carried on doing it.
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?
Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.
Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.
Every comedian has a moment in his life when he realizes he's a little bit different from everyone else. It's like being the only guy in a movie who sees the ghost. The ghost talks to you and you talk to him. Then you turn to your friend and say, "Hey. Do you see that ghost? And he says, What ghost?"
I'm a bug on acting, which distinguishes Second City from a lot of other revues. It comes from the character, the behavior, and not from the jokes. I don't think jokes are funny. Humor comes out of character and out of situations the character is in.
