John Green Quotes

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

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.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Jokes are grievances.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.

It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.

Let's just let funny people be funny.

People hate jokes.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.