Local Humor Quotes

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.

I'm from Indiana. I know what you're thinking, Indiana... Mafia. But in Indiana it's not like New York where everyone's like, 'We're from New York and we're the best' or 'We're from Texas and we like things big' it's more like 'We're from Indiana and we're gonna move.'

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

It's quite telling that the really big comedians - like John Bishop from Liverpool, Kevin Bridges from Glasgow, Peter Kay from Bolton - stand out with their strong regional accents.