I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
Weirdly, for someone who wanted to be funny, I didn't like a lot of attention.
I like seeing comedians do stuff that I could never do.
Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.
I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.
I refuse not to have a sense of humour.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.
My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.
I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.