Anthony Jeselnik Quotes

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

I have an incredibly dry sense of humor.

I’m a ridiculous person. If you take anything any comedian says seriously, then you’re stupid.

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

The secret to humor is surprise.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.