Bobby Bones Quotes

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

I had enough therapy to know when I broke it down, it became clearer to me: Yes, comedy was kind of a cleansing thing for me to do.

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

I've never thought that what I do as an actor does anything for anybody, other than making them laugh once in a while.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.

If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage.

I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.

Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.

If I don't get in the studio, I don't have no therapy.

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.