Artie Lange Quotes

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

It's hard to make a joke out of someone that's a joke.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

You can make fun of everything.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

Humor is hostility.

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

I am a walking joke.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

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.