For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'
Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.
Richard Pryor - he had stories, he had characters, he had short jokes, and he had bits. He had all those things. Eddie Murphy has all those things, and he can sing. A comedian is a bunch of stuff; it's not just one area.
You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.
I can't do jokes. I've always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against that - albeit a very soft and surreal rebellion. It's escapist.
It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.
Fart jokes still work for me.
I have a file of four million jokes... I have them cross-indexed. Whatever subject you want, I have a joke on it.
My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.
Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they're going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself.
Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.
My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
Garry Shandling's stand-up specials were masterpieces of tightly crafted stories that delivered both hard jokes and hard truths. He was neurotic and self-deprecating, and his observations on life cut deep.
In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.
Before, I didn't do celebrity stuff, 'cause Kathy Griffin did that, but now, if you're going to make jokes on Twitter, you have to stay current.
Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.
