Adriana Trigiani Quotes

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.

I'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

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

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

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 like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

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.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

Your funny gets developed pretty early on. Comedy requires that you understand as much as possible about the viewpoints of all people and everything that's going on around you. It genuinely requires a true point of view, a real sense of your own view of things in the world.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

Humor is hostility.

Being an outsider helps breed comedy.