Eugene Mirman Quotes

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.

I’m a ridiculous person. If you take anything any comedian says seriously, then you’re stupid.

At the time, it was a really funny joke [Fluffy] and I went back and forth with going against the joke or embrace it. I decided to embrace it and now we're talking about it, so it was a good call.

Everything I do is intended to make people laugh and think. I just think something is funny, it's not hurting anybody, not stabbing anybody, not shooting anybody, not making anybody watch me perform. There are thousands of comedians, don't come see me because it's not like I hide it.

I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value of them. I know what they can do.

Most comedians come from a dark past and have a lot of sadness.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.

I love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show.

The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.

I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.

Comedy is saving me.