Quotes About Comedy

Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Yesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car. It wasn't serious — nobody saw me.

There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies.

I have a rare form of body dysmorphia in which I absolutely can't stand how good I look.

Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

All humor is rooted in pain.

I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.

I have an inferiority complex, but it's not a very good one.

Spaghetti... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I'll have 1,000 pieces of noodles.

Where are all the sour patch parents?

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.

I'm in shape. Round is a shape.

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

I put fruit on top of my waffles, because I want something to brush off.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.