Stephen Jackson Quotes

You could probably convince me that North Jersey and South Jersey should be two separate states. They're just so different.

I don't usually eulogise about people, but I saw Russell Brand doing stand-up before he was really high profile. I didn't really know what to expect but I laughed until my belly ached.

I think no matter where you're from, you're going to be laughing about stuff going on around you.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

It's not at all easy to make people laugh. Kudos to those who can do it so well.

I enjoy doing comedy.

I'm a big fan of comedy such as Cendric the Entertainer.

I've always loved comedy.

My family is all obsessed with comedy. I grew up watching a lot of comedy in the house. I used to watch Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy with my dad. But my mom is more into slapstick stuff.

As far as stand-up, a lot of Asians and Chinese are not as apt to stand-up, especially the older generation since they don't even know what stand-up is.

I love comedy. Comedy is one of my favourite things to do.

I'd rather do comedy. I'd rather make people laugh than cry.

When you see me on the pitch, I will always be smiling, always laughing, always playing jokes. I grew up as somebody who was always laughing. In England, people will tell me that I should not laugh, but you cannot stop me from laughing. It's impossible.

Dylan Moran, my favourite comedian, was walking down the street in Edinburgh. I nearly got run over as I sprinted up to him to tell him I was his biggest fan. His stand-up comedy gives me a stitch from laughing.

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes.

Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them.

I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone.

Humor is not about problems with airline luggage handlers. It's about our lives in America and it's about the ends of our lives and it's about everything that happens after that and everything that happened before.

It's a real democratic time for comedy, and I think my special is a sign for that. You don't have to just be a classic stand-up to get a special, or you don't just have to be on Saturday Night Live to do characters and sketch on TV. The web has allowed me to show that there are different ways to make people laugh, and the special is a combination of those things.

It was a very funny conference. I knew [Christopher Hitchens] before that. He had always been a good angel to me. He once stole a phrase from me that came out of his mouth on television. I saw his eyes move sideways. I thought, It's alright, you can have it! The conference was light on women. Salman Rushdie showed up, they were doing their own thing. I didn't feel neglected!