Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

We do not take humor seriously enough.

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

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

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

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.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

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.

Jokes are grievances.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

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

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.