Carlos Mencia Quotes

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

In my own mind, I can joke about anything.

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

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 learned a long time ago from when I did 'Seinfeld' never to take anything seriously, and to be part of the joke is the best way to show what a good sport I was.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.

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

My humor isn't meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it's to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

If someone could get off a good joke every ten days I think our troubles will be over.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.