George Meredith Quotes

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

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.

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

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

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

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 an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

I think comedy tells a lot; you can tell what people think by what they laugh at.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

You gotta keep the funny intact.