Art Buchwald Quotes

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

Jokes are grievances.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

One horselaugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

I am a walking joke.

It's hard to make a joke out of someone that's a joke.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

In my own mind, I can joke about anything.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

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.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.