Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

In the end, everything is a gag.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

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

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

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

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.