Jeff Ross Quotes

Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.

Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid.

I'm always very fearful when academics get ahold of comedy. Comedy is such a clear thing - people laugh, or they don't laugh. It's involuntary. I'm not saying it can't be scrutinized, it's just that they take the enjoyment out of it.

I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.

I had always been - everybody kind of likes comedy. I was very interested in comedy, beyond just liking it. I had friends that took apart radios; I wanted to take apart jokes.

The truth is, I've denied it for years, but I love deconstructing comedy.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.

So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It's time to invest on the inside.

I've never felt like this before. I'm naked around you. Does it show? You see right through me and I can't hide. I'm naked around you. And it feels so right.

Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.

The moment you enter into the world of words you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence.

The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

Interestingly it's when you come to the comedy, that's where a lot of the discussion is. It's like ten people sitting around talking about what is funny. "Is that funny? Is that funnier than that? Is this slightly funnier than this?" I guess that's what it's like when you're making a comedy movie as well, you just have to sit around talking seriously about the nature of comedy.

We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

One should make the best choice possible given the circumstances, and then avoid second-guessing for the sake of one's own sanity.

When your mind opens, the whole world falls into place.

Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

We can't stop the world, but there's so much more that we could do You can't stop this girl from falling more in love with you You said nobody has to know Give us time to grow, and take it slow but I'd stop the world if it finally let us be alone Let us be alone oooo ohhh oh