Adam Carolla Quotes

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view.

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

A joke's a very serious thing.

There's always a message in my comedy.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

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

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

Comedy has lost its eloquence.

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

With comedy I can search for the profound.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

Comedy is very disarming. It's a way to talk about things and still be light-hearted. And when it's done really well, you never see the strings, whereas when you watch an infomercial or a politician speaking, a lot of times you can see the strings, you can see what agenda they're trying to push.

If you don't like the people, you're just doing a sketch. Which, in most cases, is comedy minus some emotional backbone.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy.

The best comedy not only makes you laugh, but on the moment of the laugh, you learned.