David Frankel Quotes

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

Four million surplus women. Four million sexually unsatisfied women, artificially creating a host of problems in order to excite or appease their senses. Not being able to embrace one man, they embrace humanity.

Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is.

My sex life has gone from bad to pathetic. My G spot stands for godforsaken.

My sex life is like shooting pool with a rope!

About how much sex I didn’t get? Go ahead.

I've paid attention to guys growin' up like Richard Pryor or Paul Mooney. The message that they were sending with what they did was so much bigger than them.

I feel sex is a common topic everyone see in content of any television shows be it a fiction or live comedy or a chat show.

It's a very short walk to go from making jokes to getting on a soapbox and going on a diatribe.

You have comedians who just do jokes, and they're called comics, not comedians. You have comedians that do bits - a person that has a lot of jokes that have a beginning, a middle and an end, but it's not a real story. And you have someone that does great stories, the one that blends those things together - that person is doing comedy.

What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.

'The Daily Show' is a cultural phenomenon.

The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.

I’m a ridiculous person. If you take anything any comedian says seriously, then you’re stupid.

Everyone's sex life is funny except your own. Every person's is, and yours never is. The lengths people go to — and the extremes and the conditions and the mental exercises and guilt and shame and happiness that everybody goes through — and what they'll do for sex is never-ending and mind-boggling and very interesting to me. And I don't think a lot of times people choose any of it.

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

The reason you often get in comedy is because you're not getting laid.

Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.

Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not.

Comedy Central does a really good job of finding totally different comedies.

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

My sex life is so bad, my G-spot has been declared a historical landmark.

I think humor is actually a very serious thing. I think the people who shaped culture, for the better, in the last 50 years or so, more than almost anyone else are people like Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor and even Chris Rock, back when he was doing the edgier stuff.