Mitch Hedberg Quotes

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

It's funny because it's funny.

Laughable

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle."

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

I love irony.

I kind of find humor in everything, even to the point where it's awkward - like, the worst scenarios are the funniest things ever.

To think of Tolstoy eating a sandwich is intrinsically kind of funny.

Ironic things are interesting.