Mitch Hedberg Quotes

I think comedy in the last 5-7 years is as good as it's ever been in America. I like it when people push it. You go through periods where people did not push the envelope. The more you push it, the funnier you get.

Male comics are always coming up to me and they're like 'Hey Natasha. Don't you think you're a little attractive to be a comedian?' and I'm like 'Don't you think you're a little ugly to be talking to me?'

Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh.

I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late '90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn't do some of the more explicit jokes.

I just think women are funnier than men.

Comedians usually are rooting for the underdog. I mean to take a shot at an underdog I think is really stupid and low and not funny.

I like to think of myself as the middleman between Fred Allen and Henny Youngman.

I don't think I've ever died on stage. I've had jokes that died on stage. I've told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn't know it was the end of the joke.

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

I make people laugh for a living. I believe I can say objectively that what I do I do as well as anybody. Just say I'm one of the best broken field runners that ever lived. For 35 years I was a cult hero, an underground funny.

I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.

I don't think there's anything Craig Ferguson could say that would make me laugh. Ad-libbing is not the same as entertainment.

Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."

Carol Leifer is funny, really funny.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.

I never thought I was funny. I don't THINK funny.

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

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

Women are very funny. Some of the funniest people I can think of are women.

What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.

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.

Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.

I think absurdist humor is funny.

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.