Repetitive Humor Quotes

I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

You get sick of jokes, you know. Either I do them on TV, and then you worry, like, "Oh, everyone's gonna see it," so you chuck it, or you just get sick of saying it. After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

I can't imagine saying the same joke for three hours. I don't know how that would work.

Everyone's heard the same joke a million times and knows the setups. They are tired of the mass-marketed entertainment served on the networks.

A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

I like silly things. I think that "silly-stupid" or "stupid-smart" might be my philosophy, which is to combine a veneer of intelligence with an undercurrent of crass stupidity. Sometimes that stupidity is in the form of the actual joke that's being told, or it could be in the way the joke is told. Like, repetition is really stupid, but it's really funny. Or it could be that the punchline itself is stupid.

The funny thing is, when I've gone through the relentless editing process, my editor and I are amazed the Mercy Watson books still make us laugh. The same jokes that made us laugh the first time around still make us laugh in the 16th rendition.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

You see a lot of sketch variety shows where each segment is one joke that they repeat over and over and over again, and the sketches are always three or four minutes too long.