Denis Leary Quotes

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.

We're not all Jon Stewart. I know I'm not. I dropped out of college. Why would you come to me for anything that may influence your fact-based perspective? I think that the job of a comic is to be emotionally true.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.

I have no desire to get on a soapbox or be preachy. I don't think comedy needs to be 'brave' or 'important.'

I love Jon Stewart.

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

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.

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.

Chris Rock is a very funny man.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian.

I just want to be known as funny.

There's always a message in my comedy.

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.

I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.