Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

You can parody almost anything.

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

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

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Larry David makes me laugh.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

You can make fun of everything.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.