Garry Trudeau Quotes

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

I am pretty sarcastic and pretty dry.

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

Great humorists are great insulters.

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

I never have been able to understand where the humor comes from.

I've never really loved mean comedy.

'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. You might say that the movie walks it like it talks it; I'm not sure what Pootie would say.

Woody says I can make jokes, but I don't get them - I'm always looking deeper for the meanings.

Some comedy has turned into, 'Donald Trump's bad, isn't he?' That's a true statement. But where is your joke?

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

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

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.