Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

When I'm funny is when I'm angriest.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way.

Nothing is off-limits. There's just some things I cannot crack. Politics I can't do. When I start to talk about it, I just get really angry and super sincere. I have never found a way to craft all of that absurdity into funny.

A lot of my comedy is to do with being angry, then finding a way to channel that.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

I was stuck in traffic and I looked in the mirror and in the car behind me there was a couple having a horrible argument and right below their image it said "Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear". I just thought, man I hope so because she was pretty mad.

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.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible.

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.