Will Rogers Quotes

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

The best comedy is based on truth.

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

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.

In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

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.

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

True wit never made us 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.

It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often I find Christians - but not just Christians, (any) people who have a certain core belief of things - don't like to have fun made of them at all.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

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

People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor are people who have made a mistake.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.