Emo Philips Quotes

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

I really love comedy. I love making people laugh. But other things also appeal to me.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).

I love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show.

They're the darkest people I know, comedians.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes.

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

Comedy shows in D.C. are so much fun. I think because of the intense area that is connected to politics that people need, they need their down time. D.C. audiences are almost universally praised by comedians.

A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.

Comedy is a noble art.

Everything I do is intended to make people laugh and think. I just think something is funny, it's not hurting anybody, not stabbing anybody, not shooting anybody, not making anybody watch me perform. There are thousands of comedians, don't come see me because it's not like I hide it.

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

I find comedy to be one of the highest of the art forms.

[Making people laugh] was a secret dream I kept and I didn't tell anybody about it until I was about 18.

I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.

Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.