John Cho Quotes

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

My audience expects me to push the limits, to be politically incorrect. I do that because for me, that's the only place where the fun is, when I get to push the boundaries and make people laugh at things that they probably didn't want to laugh at.

I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.

In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

The difference between you and the funny person on TV is that they acted on their ideas.

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

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

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

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

Bad taste is not illegal. I always got my first laughs as a kid by saying inappropriate things. That's always how we're going to get our laughs as comics.

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

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

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.

There's a reason why start-ups, especially disruptive start-ups - like Google or Amazon or Uber - are full of young people. That's because young people are not as wedded to the old fashioned ways of doing things.

I don't want to push barriers myself. You go to see Joan Rivers to see barriers being pushed. You watch 'Little Britain' to see barriers being pushed.

Compared to what comics say today, I'm a monk, but in those days, it was unheard of to make fun of people like I did. Of course, they exaggerated how outrageous I really was.