“I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.” PeopleCountryStatesWholeHumorFunnyAmericaSidesComedyPercentFolksTraveled Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“In junior high, there were a lot of really ugly guys who were popular because they made people laugh. I was like, "Wow, comedy is the great freer of hideous people." It was an incredibly liberating thing. If you ask a girl, "What do you want in a guy?" 99 percent are like, "I just want him to be funny." I thought, "If that applies to women, I'm set.” PeopleIfsWantMadeGuyGirlAsksLaughingComedyPercentUglyWowLiberatingJuniorsHideousWant HimJunior HighAsk A Girl Author:Mindy Kaling
“I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.” FeelsComedyComfortablePercentElection Author:Rob Corddry
“Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.” IfsGoneComedyPercentOkay Author:Joan Rivers
“I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway.” ThinkingWayWritingWellsProblemValuesActorsNationsComedyPoliticianPercentSolveRidiculousVirtuousSoberBraggingTabloidsPedestalAbout FamilyFamily ValuesWriting Comedy Author:Steve Coogan
“I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.” PeopleWritingBelieveHateForceI BelieveComedyPercentI HateTwentiesEightyFallacy Author:Tone Bell
“Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.” LittlesFantasyComedyAdventureRight NowPercentPencilsNinetySkirtsSubwayHurryingNew AdventureHankering Author:Mindy Kaling
“Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.” GivingAbleBehindsComedyPercentDoctorsMedicinePatientPaymentNineteenInjectionLethal Injection Author:Jay Leno
“What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there are those who end up in comedy because they don't know how to socialize. I don't want to deal with that group.” KnowsWantEndsFoundSocialDealsCareersKnow HowComedyNiceGroupsSkillsPercentSocial Skills Author:Lewis Black