Jeff Ross Quotes

You can't just yell jokes at people.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.

I like comedy as a group sport.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

As soon as you explain a joke, it immediately becomes unfunny.

I use mother-in-law jokes, kid jokes, tax jokes - anything that works.

I make jokes. That's what I do.

The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form.

Normal people don't become stand-up comedians.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

I'm a comic; we get hecklers every night! It's really just part of the job.

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Humor is not about problems with airline luggage handlers. It's about our lives in America and it's about the ends of our lives and it's about everything that happens after that and everything that happened before.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.

I just tell jokes, and I think a lot of people take it too seriously. It's not that I don't have things that I'm angry about in the world, and I think most decent human beings are upset about things, and even upset about things in their own country, but I'm not a particularly unhappy fellow.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.