Joan Rivers Quotes

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

Comedy is just honesty. Whether things are going well or bad.

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

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.

You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it!

Different things made 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.

I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.

I strive for honesty because I think that's where the funniest stuff comes from.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

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.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

I'm not scared about saying what I think.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.