Lewis Grizzard Quotes

Let's just let funny people be funny.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

I think it's legitimate to do satire. If you're going to write a book of satire on Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, you're not going to get their permission, because you're going to make fun of them!

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

Everything is not serious. If you don't like what I'm saying, change the channel - don't look at me, don't buy a ticket. You either get it or you don't, and it's fascinating because it's usually intelligent people with a sense of humor who get it.

Comedy has no rules, per se.

We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.

You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.