Ridley Scott Quotes

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be taught any lessons. [...] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.

There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it's the closest I'll ever come to being able to be a stand up. And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes.

Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh.

As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh.

I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

I don't do politics. I just like to laugh.

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.

I love doing comedy, and that's the thing I will always go back to, really, but I'd love to have the freedom to do sort of 'meaty' roles but also have the freedom to do the sort of films I want to make, like what Woody Allen does. You forget he's funny because you're so gripped by the story, but they still make you laugh.

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.