Aldous Huxley Quotes

Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

I love to play it. I think it's funny. It's always been funny to me. Somebody who's large and in charge but totally wrong-headed.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

I think statues are great; they show what great people would look like if a bird sh*t all over them.

It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often I find Christians - but not just Christians, (any) people who have a certain core belief of things - don't like to have fun made of them at all.

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.

Irreverence is an essential part of our culture.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.

We make fun of our leaders.

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

I'm really cocky. Or - I've been thinking about this word a lot - I'm 'mischievous,' and I want to make light of things and push the boundaries.

Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.