Affected Quote by Jenny Slate

Humor was a big part of my childhood. My family was full of comedians. We'd sit around the dinner table and try to one-up…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The main reason I got into comedy was in the hope that I could make a few people laugh and feel better about life,…

— Miranda Hart

I was influenced by a lot of comedy growing up, I had good parents. They were funny, too. My mom was hilarious; my dad…

— Jermaine Fowler

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make…

— Nathan Fillion

I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always…

— Patrick Stewart

I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and…

— Rob Delaney

I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the…

— Christian Finnegan

My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a…

— Robin Williams

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back…

— Ari Graynor

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an…

— Justin Timberlake

Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at something inappropriate…

— Anthony Jeselnik

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly…

— Leslie Nielsen