Jon Lovitz Quotes

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

I'm a funny guy. I want people to laugh. I laugh at myself, I make fun of myself. But at the end of the day everything that I say has a message in it.

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.

I don't just try to be funny.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

Comedy is just honesty. Whether things are going well or bad.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there's a certain irony or detachedness expected of us, even though we really feel sincere. So the only way to sincerity is through a joke.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

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.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.

It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.