Sarah Silverman Quotes

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

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

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.

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

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

In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

I like really stupid comedies.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

Funny is funny.

I'm not trying to teach anybody anything, I'm not trying to say anything, I have no political motive whatsoever. My motive is just the big laugh.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

Funny is funny is funny.

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

Any time you can involve fake mustaches, things are just better.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

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

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it's not hurting anyone's feelings, I'm in on the joke.

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.