Yvonne Orji Quotes

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

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

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.

I think there should be comedy in everything; it doesn't matter what you're doing.

We don't really see a lot of comedic moments in '24.' In fact, I haven't seen all of it, but from what I have seen, I don't know if I've ever laughed at anything that anyone has done on '24.'

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

I've always found the world funny and enjoy laughing at it, and that's what all comedians do.

I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.

I think comedy can be a way of sugar-coating a pill that needs to be taken, and whatever I complain about onstage, I hope I justify the negativity by using humour to make the point.

Audiences want comedy that has no venom. They want to have a laugh without it becoming twee.

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

Comedy can do so much more than make you laugh.

What I do with impressions, I try not to be mean-spirited. To me, it's just about being silly.