Trevor Noah Quotes

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

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

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.

Everything I do is intended to make people laugh and think. I just think something is funny, it's not hurting anybody, not stabbing anybody, not shooting anybody, not making anybody watch me perform. There are thousands of comedians, don't come see me because it's not like I hide it.

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

I think comedy is a really, really good tool for trying to say something.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

Humor and comedy have always been the best way to deal with real life issues and just reality.

I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.

Comedy is a noble art.

[Making people laugh] was a secret dream I kept and I didn't tell anybody about it until I was about 18.

The only way to get a serious message across is through comedy

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.

I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying to be funny and failing is about the most embarrassing thing you can do.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job.

I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.