Craig Crawford Quotes

Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

My only rule about a joke is that it should be funny.

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.

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

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.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

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

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

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

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Comedians in general make their living calling liars on their lies.

One horselaugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms.

I am a walking joke.

There's nothing worse than trying to be funny and not being funny.