Robert Mankoff Quotes

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

Very few have the talent to make others laugh without being laughed at.

'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we're always going to push the humiliation levels.

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

I love The Onion videos, those are amazing.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

The image of a person completely covered in cotton candy made me laugh the most. I'm not sure why. To me, being tarred and feathered in sugar is just good comedy.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

No matter how you feel, you've got to be able to laugh at yourself. If you can laugh at Donald Trump, then you better be able to laugh at yourself, too. For us as comedians, we have to point out what's funny.

I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.