Carlos Mencia Quotes

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

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.

Anybody can go onstage and be dirty. You have to be funny, that's the key. You can say anything as long as it's funny. You can't take it too seriously up there. And people coming to see you can't take it too seriously.

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

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there because I really love it, and it makes people happier.

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

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

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.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done.

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.

I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.

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

My primary responsibility is to be funny.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

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.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.