Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else, and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.

Anything goes when I perform. That's the way it's been since I started. I do whatever I want, and I know my humor isn't for everybody.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.

The biggest void that people can have in their lives is a sense of humor. Spending your life with someone who doesn't have that wouldn't be palatable.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

I don't take Twitter that serious. It's all in good humor. I've made fun of people on Twitter and it's whatever.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

There's so much humor in serious things sometimes.

I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.

I've learned to start from a really sound argument, boil down the essence of what you're trying to say, then build your humor around that, rather than starting with, 'This sounds funny,' and going from there.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.