Hannibal Buress Quotes

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

I see myself primarily as a comedian, and my aim on the 'Last Leg' is to be as funny as I can about the news.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

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

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail.

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.

I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.

My audience expects me to push the limits, to be politically incorrect. I do that because for me, that's the only place where the fun is, when I get to push the boundaries and make people laugh at things that they probably didn't want to laugh at.

I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that.

Sometimes my humor does offend people, and I've said it before: I don't write jokes to be offensive. I write jokes to be funny, and I guess what I find funny are things that other people sometimes find offensive. I would love nothing more than to never offend anyone, but it just doesn't seem to work out that way.

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

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.

I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.

My influences were Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce.

Chris Rock is a very funny man.

I think comedians start off as pranksters or something.