Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.
I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.
I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, 'Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking.'
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.
Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.
I'm just not very funny.
Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'
I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.
I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.
By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.