Katherine Ryan Quotes

In my comedy, I'm not always trying to say something, but when I'm playing a creepy dude, you're laughing because you know that creepy dude. You've heard that dude say something awful, and I'm just putting a little creative spin on it.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

I'd say Jon Stewart has remained funny the entire time. Jon always makes it funny first. And he's just, he's talking about serious things, but in a funny way. Other comedians will talk about serious things in a serious way, and then you don't know what's going on.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

For me, comedy was deftly terrifying.

I'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities.

I see myself primarily as a comedian, and my aim on the 'Last Leg' is to be as funny as I can about the news.

Sometimes, I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.

The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break it down, the joke isn't filthy at all: it's clever.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.