Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!

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

Great humorists are great insulters.

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.

Half-brights consider it comedy gold to congratulate anyone they dislike for 'winning the Kentucky Derby!' The only thing more bracingly original to not-smart people is: 'Stay classy!'

I like to make fun of serious matters.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

You stupid jackass," Ian said. "Who's got the crush on a worm, bro? You gonna call me stupid?

You wouldn't say ' You've got the crappest eyes I've ever seen. Your eyes make me physically sick.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

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

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

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

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.