Leslie Jordan Quotes

I might do a fitness video. Actually, more of a fatness video.

My abs are so ripped up they're called 'The Situation.'

I finally have the body I want. It’s easy, actually, you just have to want a really shitty body.

I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

I'd feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don't.

There's always a message in my comedy.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

I think comedy has to be very fearless, or it just gets bland.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I'm not an impersonator. I'm a lousy impersonator, actually.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.