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Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.

Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying 'yes and' to other people's ideas, making statements.

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.

When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why a game's first job is to entertain through gameplay and secondarily through humor, drama, or other traditional entertainment devices. The humor has to be a gentleman. I mean, it needs to be squeezed in around the game.

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.