Natasha Leggero Quotes

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

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