Joel McHale Quotes

What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things. And I'm never mean-spirited. See, the word insult means some guy who's a real unkind human being. But I don't do that, because otherwise I wouldn't be headlining all these years, thank god, and all these people showing up to see me.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

I'm sure there are comedians who make jokes about me, but say something funny, not mean.

I'm always making fun of myself and my friends.

I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it.

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'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

The comedy on '2 Broke Girls' always comes from a place of love - it's never mean. We're a comedy, and we often go right to the edge. It doesn't bother me. I've encountered this all my life. I've been made fun of all my life.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

I saw an Emmy ad that AMC took out with all the 'Breaking Bad' nominees' photos, and there's my picture from the show. It's like World's Ugliest Man - I'm an automatic winner in that category.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

I'm not much of a jokester.

It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.