Comedy Quotes & Jokes / page 853
Some people are like Slinkies - not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.
I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.
I'm very big in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and America. It's nice. I have a lovely life, and actually it pays better than the movies. Well, it doesn't pay better than Tom Cruise in the movies. But it pays better than I get. I get bus fare compared to these guys.
I'm writing a book. It's called The Soft Spot... and Other Ways to Stop a Crying Baby.
Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.
You know how when you pee in the toilet it sounds like a chipmunk commanding you to kill Kenny G?
On Sundays, I lay low, sulk a lot, and try to get my head together for next week.
My mate asked me "What do you think of voluntary work?? I said "I wouldn't do it if you paid me."
I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
