I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no humour.
Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.
For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.
I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.
I gravitate to ensemble comedy.
I've never really loved mean comedy.
I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.
British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me.
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.
I just am a snob when it comes to humor.
I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.
I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.
I don't really like comedy.
I've never been a dirty comic.
People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.
I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'
When I was a kid, I was the one causing the problems, and my little sister was the intermediary. But I think in life, generally, I don't want drama. I'd so much rather do something goofy.
I like very straight comedy.
The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There's a lot of supposed tween comedy on TV that isn't particularly funny, but it's got a lot of laugh track. And I go, 'Please don't watch that. Please just watch something that's actually funny.'
I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
I really like just super dry comedy.
I like things that are sort of comic and humorous rather than satirical.
I like grown-up comedy, where it's about character and attitude and life as opposed to obvious gross-out and jokes.
