Humor Preferences Quotes

Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'

Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is the worst.

I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.'

I'm not a 'Steel Magnolias' kind of girl. I'm kind of like a guy. My favorite movie is 'Caddyshack.'

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.

When I first started watching stand-up, I fell in love with American comedy before British comedy.

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.

'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

I'd love to write more observational comedy but the stuff people seem to respond to is the most personal so it's snowballed from there.

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.

Betty White jokes are just not for me.

It's how you define yourself. It's not Nirvana or Pearl Jam: it's, 'Do you watch 'Portlandia' or 'Amy Schumer'?' It relates to a specific sense of humor. And, 'Do you know the hidden gems?' Like, if you knew the Pixies in the '80s.

You can tell a lot about a person by what comedians they like.

I'm a comedian and there are a lot of things I'm still learning. I love one liners because I love smart jokes. I also don't like complaining about society or whining about my life on stage.

I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.

My friends know that I have a silly sense of humour and I can be a little vulgar at times - but just with people that I am close to.

Because I'm around comedians all the time, in my downtime I tend not to watch comedy. Something the whole family enjoys is 'You've Been Framed!' It satisfies all of us. It's universal, and we all laugh a lot.

I feel like I don't really have a sense of humor... I don't know if I could characterize it dark or light. I just - I do like humor.

I don't think there are hour comedies, but if there were, I would have been open to it.

I don't aim it at anybody specific, I don't aim my characters to make old people laugh or young people or professionals or blue collar, just whatever I think is going to be funny and it just so happens that.