Corbin Bernsen Quotes

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

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.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

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

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

I love an act that makes fun of the situation, and of course makes fun of yourself. That's important, you can't take yourself too seriously.

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

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

I like humor.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

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.