Stephen Colbert Quotes

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

Gags die, humor doesn't.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

You step in with the Seth Rogens of the world, you better have some jokes.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh.

I’m a ridiculous person. If you take anything any comedian says seriously, then you’re stupid.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

There is a universality to comedy.