Ray Romano Quotes

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

If you like quick put-downs and aggressive interactions with the audience, you will probably not enjoy the rambles of an unusual character act making jokes about cats for an hour.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

My comedy is kind of a counteraction to some of the comedy I don't like. Or things I don't like.

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

Bad times for the Republic are great times for satire.

As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.

I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.

I like to watch and perform the kind of comedy that comes out of the situation - where the character is really serious and in a tough situation and doesn't realize that the situation is comic.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

I don't know how to describe my sense of humor.

People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to write jokes about the absurdity that we see in government and the world and all that, and that's it.