Whereas privately his friends delight in his clever, zany humour and mercurial mental energy, his public persona can seem a little remote.
His acceptance speech, which can readily be found on the internet, affords a shining example of his clever, dry wit and self-deprecating humour.
"We'd rather do a kind of a multi-layered, clever kind of humour which can appeal to people on different levels, and see what we can get away with," Price says.
The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, wrote in their review of the episode: "very clever, very dry humour and showcasing the last person you might expect to suffer road rage.
Sim Barbaresi, the father of one child, says: "He has a clever way of using humour to bring out the best in every child, no matter what their ability.
Through skilful casting (the work of Juliet Taylor), affectionate humour and clever writing, Allen suggests that what we are seeing is the essence of these celebrated figures as filtered through the imagination of the wide-eyed Gil.
Excuse me while I wring out my pro-lib hankie all over the pages of The Guardian but I find it hard to appreciate the clever touches and inherent humour of comedy shagging when it's underpinned by a sense of glee at having a vehicle for a XXL load of problematic trash.
"He had nothing but admiration and respect for Hitch, understood his clever cockney sense of humour, and thought the man a genius.
That dark humour and clever evolution of plot comes courtesy of the film's screenwriter, geekdom's filmmaker-in-chief Joss Whedon.
If you are clever with it, observational humour is a good way to strike up a conversation.
