“Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.”

“You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.”

“I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.”

“I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.”

“I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.”

“A joke is a very serious thing.”

“Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.”

“With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.”

“My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.”