Jim Gaffigan Quotes

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

There is a universality to comedy.

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

I'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view or my take on things that everyone can laugh at.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

I'd say Jon Stewart has remained funny the entire time. Jon always makes it funny first. And he's just, he's talking about serious things, but in a funny way. Other comedians will talk about serious things in a serious way, and then you don't know what's going on.

I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

Humor is the ultimate truth. If it’s not true, the joke is not funny.

My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.