Quotes About Humor

I'm a much better comedian than I am a soccer player.

I think as creatures we're incredibly sociable, and I do think comedy brings us all together.

I don't want to offend people and I don't want to be mean, but social commentary and comedy for me are part and parcel. I think the greatest social activists are comedians.

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

All comedy is really talking about social issues and things that are affecting our lives.

When people laugh at social media it's because they don't understand how much work is involved. It's like creating any kind of content.

I have no idea how to use social media for anything other than forwarding a good fart joke.

When people tell me that my films make them smile, I feel like I'm doing a social service by making these light-hearted comedy movies.

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.

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of personal element to that.

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

I think 'Bridesmaids' has changed things socially and culturally. Before, it was really difficult for women to do scatological humour without seeming gross.

Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.

I feel like a lot of the guys who are trying to do political or socially relevant humor just haven't figured out who the enemy is.

When women are seen on TV being crass or funny or making jokes or undercutting someone, then you feel it's socially acceptable for a woman to do that. More women are growing up feeling, 'I can speak my mind and say what I want.'

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.

I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

I always say: 'If I'm lucky enough to be given the opportunity to work again, that's it, I'm being wheeled on, sitting on a sofa, and someone's going to feed me grapes, and I'm not getting up.'