George Bernard Shaw Quotes

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

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

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

Sometimes, I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

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

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

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

We do not take humor seriously enough.