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I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane.

I know how to make adults laugh pretty well. I don't know if kids think I'm that funny.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'

Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

I'm sure that my parents' behavior has entered my work, I'm sorry to say. I don't think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps.

You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It's how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.