Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

I am built funny. Picture Mark Twain's head on Ichabod Crane's body. Now hold your mental picture to the light and crumple it.

Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.

The funniest thing about some people is that they have no sense of humor.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

Somebody once said I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

It's funny because it's funny.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.