Bill Hader Quotes

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

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

I have a very dark sense of humor.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

Jokes are grievances.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

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

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

The only thing I know how to do is be funny - that's it.