Doug Stanhope Quotes

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

The business of entertainment is business first. I do a comic strip; the job, the business, is to be funny. If I’m not funny, the politics don’t matter, because no one will read it.

Obama isn't funny.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

Comedy's really subjective, you know.

I like humor.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I have so much respect for what's funny.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very 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.'

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

There is a universality to comedy.

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