There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.
Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.
The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.
Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.
They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.
You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.