Jon Richardson Quotes

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

I can't not put humor in a book.

Comedy should be easy, not laboured.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Jokes are grievances.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.