“Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke”

“The problem with this new generation is, they take everything as joking as funny. Even they don't think about tomorrow's life will hold on.”

“In life, we are given the choice between three paths: utopia, illusion or nonsense. The funny thing is, none of us get the joke.”

“Always warm up the audience with a joke…. If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke….”

“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”

“I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.”

“My dad knew I was going to be a comedian. When I was a baby, he said, 'Is this a joke?”

“… nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.”

“Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.”

“Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.”