Wendy Wasserstein Quotes

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

I'm a sucker for a good sense of humor.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

Sex is pretty funny, let's face it. And the more seriously we take ourselves, the funnier sex gets, I think.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

I don't know what humor is.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

True wit never made us laugh.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.

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.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

I'd rather be funny than wise.

I like humor.

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.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

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

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.