Lil Dicky Quotes

You know, I've never thought of myself as a comedian.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

I'm actually a big fan of Kathy Griffin because I think she's really funny. I think she's really self-deprecating, which is something I like to see in a comedian. I think those are really the best comedians: people who can make fun of themselves.

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 think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

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

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom.

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

People are like, 'How did you get so funny?' And I'm like, 'Wait, am I funny?'

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.