Robin Ince Quotes

I don't know what humor is.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

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.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them.

My humor isn't meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it's to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.

Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

All I care about is making jokes that are funny and making people laugh.

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

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

I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.

I've always liked the fact that I could make people laugh at crazy stuff that has happened to me. If it makes you feel better at me falling down the stairs...then I'm going to do it.

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

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

When in doubt, go for the dick joke.

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke?

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.