Bill Hicks Quotes

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

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

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

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

Comedy can be very deep sometimes.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

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

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

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

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.