Roseanne Barr Quotes

My audience expects me to push the limits, to be politically incorrect. I do that because for me, that's the only place where the fun is, when I get to push the boundaries and make people laugh at things that they probably didn't want to laugh at.

Comedians play off of social commentary.

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Chris Rock is a very funny man.

I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.

I like to do things that are shocking or challenging for the sake of comedy.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

There's an art to comedy.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

Larry David just makes me laugh.

Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job.

I mean, the number one goal is to make people laugh, that's definitely the first aim; but aside from that, when we discuss which topics to talk about, the second goal is to try and make a point about it.

Dave Chappelle - he's one of my favorite icons. I can't think of anyone who's funnier.

My ultimate goal is to make people laugh and make them think, which isn't always an easy task.

I'm a clown. I'm a comedian. Comedy, by design, is a place to explore the subconscious.

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.