Hasan Minhaj Quotes

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

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.

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

I have no desire to get on a soapbox or be preachy. I don't think comedy needs to be 'brave' or 'important.'

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

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.

A joke's a very serious thing.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

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

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.