Robert Orben Quotes

Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a good book on the subject, or similar tasteless - sorry, again - attempts to make the subject more palatable - last one.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

I don't like aggressive humor or mean humor.

Once you realize you can make people laugh, it's a superpower. When you're really young, you don't know how to use that power, so I would just say the meanest things I could to get a laugh. I was so awful. I would make fun of kids who didn't deserve to get made fun of. I was just mean, when I was really young. You don't realize that you don't have to be mean to be funny. But, it was something that I was just able to grow into.

Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off limits. If someone's spouse died, or one of their children, I would never joke about that in a Roast situation. I don't have any aspirations towards writing any cancer jokes, and there's some stuff that I think is definitely taboo.

You made this?' Finn looks at me. 'No, Saint Anthony brought it to me in the night. He was very put out I didn't give it to you right then.

Next to sex my favorite thing is laughing - it's part of sex. Make me laugh - I'll love you.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Nobody's safe, humor wise.

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

Are you on drugs?" "No." "Maybe you should be.

I'm pretty irreverent. There is a lot of need to find humour in life. Although I'd never be as disrespectful to laugh at someone's expense.

I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me.

Clearly," said Arthur,"you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.

I like girls with a good sense of humour. Girls who are a lot of fun to be around.

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.

I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze.

You know, sometimes I worry, you know, is comedy and my type of comedy going to get stale? Is it going to be so offensive that it becomes uninteresting or so niche that I don't have an audience anymore? But it keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger, where roasting now is a movement. These roasts are on in India, in Mexico.

If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.