Steven Crowder Quotes

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

To deliver something deadpan is very difficult; I don't think people know how hard those jokes are.

I've been too funny in my life to have to play a character who's... moderately funny.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

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

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

There's nothing worse than trying to be funny and not being funny.

I'm not a funny person.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

Comedy is second nature for me.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

Every day I think, 'Gosh, I wish I could be like George Carlin, Bill Maher: I want that edge.' But every time I start to get that edgy thing, I get kind of mean.

Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.