Whitney Cummings Quotes

I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

Humor is hostility.

I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.

I don't really see the point in offensive comedy.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

I was doing a bit that stupid people should be slapped. But the more I did it, the more I didn't like that connotation, the violence and all that. The more I thought about it, I thought they should just wear signs. And, man, it just took off.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find offensive.