Greg Giraldo Quotes

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

I don't just try to be funny.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

I love smart comedy.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

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.

I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends.

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

Some people don't have a sense of humor.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

I like humor.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

I'm not very funny!

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I think I have always had a little humor.