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Every Brit I met had the best sense of humor. They're hilarious: very dry and witty.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.

There is a universality to comedy.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.