Jon Stewart Quotes

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

Humor is hostility.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

Half-brights consider it comedy gold to congratulate anyone they dislike for 'winning the Kentucky Derby!' The only thing more bracingly original to not-smart people is: 'Stay classy!'

I am a walking joke.

I knew how to come up with jokes at someone's expense really fast.

It's hard to make a joke out of someone that's a joke.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.