James Thurber Quotes

I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.

Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.

Comedy shouldn't be restrained under the belt of normality.

For me, in my mind personally and privately, there are no limits to comedy.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

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

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.