Charles Lamb Quotes

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

The Valley is a place that takes itself too seriously, and it has yet to be properly lampooned. So it's time for a wedgie.

I am a walking joke.

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

I always seem to be chosen to do very flattering things like the beard comb over or go to the bathroom with the door open on Sex and the City or be the guy people meow at in Super Troopers. It's great for self esteem.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

I don't really see the point in offensive comedy.

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.

I can't be serious, apparently.

Earnestness makes British people gag.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

Very few have the talent to make others laugh without being laughed at.

I don't resent at all people saying, 'Oh, he's like a sweetheart'... but within comedy, it's a very funny way to talk about someone because it usually means they don't have much of an act.