John Mulaney Quotes

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.

The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

When you do a comedy, the goals are much clearer to me.

Life is a jest; and all things show it., I thought so once; but now I know it.

Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.

I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose.

In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.

The best comedy not only makes you laugh, but on the moment of the laugh, you learned.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

All comedy is really talking about social issues and things that are affecting our lives.

I have never bought into this view that some people have that the job of the comedian is to espouse opinions and change the world - I think the job of a comedian is to be funny.

I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.

I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

I feel like a lot of the guys who are trying to do political or socially relevant humor just haven't figured out who the enemy is.

Some comedy has turned into, 'Donald Trump's bad, isn't he?' That's a true statement. But where is your joke?

I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting. I wander around enjoying myopia.

The intention is to make people laugh, to make people happy. It's unselfish, it's in the service of others, and as a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy. And it has a transformative power.

Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.

I'm there to make people laugh. I'm not trying to come across as sexy.

Life is serious. (Valerius) No, life is an adventure. It's thrilling and scary. Sometimes it's even a bit boring, but it should never be serious. (Tabitha)

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it.

Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.