“I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.”

“Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.”

“The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.”

“With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.”

“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”

“Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.”

“I like humor.”

“I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.”