Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good.

Class clowns become actors.

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

I like the sound of laughter. I was the guy in the group of friends that would always make the friends laugh. And everyone was like, 'You should do stand up,' so I gave it a shot, and ta-da! They were right.

I think people are always looking for a good comedy.

For me, I've worked hard for people to think I'm funny.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

I love doing comedy. It's a lot of fun.

At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'