Laurence Sterne Quotes

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.

You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.

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

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.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

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

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.

Don't laugh at a hair joke, Trump.

It's a very short walk to go from making jokes to getting on a soapbox and going on a diatribe.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Jokes are unanswerable objections.

Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

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

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

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

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

Jokes are grievances.

Everything can be satirized.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.