Anthony Jeselnik Quotes

I make people laugh hard; I'm a comic, that's just the way it is. And I make them laugh because I'm funny, not because I'm filthy. The subject matter is dirty, but the pictures I paint are really funny. A lot of comics don't understand that that's what it's about. It's just, "I'll be dirty and they'll laugh." Nobody's becoming a superstar that way.

Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

I love to entertain and make people laugh.

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

I have a very high respect for professional comedians. What they do astonishes me. You have to be really smart and absorb everything, repackage it, bring it back to the person, and make them laugh at themselves. I can make people laugh during my talks because they didn't come to have me make them laugh. It's added value. So my job is way easier than that of a professional comic.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different.

I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.

[Making people laugh] was a secret dream I kept and I didn't tell anybody about it until I was about 18.

I like to make people laugh. I like that kind of silly stuff. For me, it's a natural thing to want to do something like this.

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh.

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

I was always sort of a ham as a kid, just always wanting to entertain and to get people to laugh.

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

You do some things and you just hope people will laugh.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.

I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.