Bob Odenkirk Quotes

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

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

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about, and that's really it. I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change, but I am far lazier than that.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

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

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing.

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

Nothing can help my comedy.