Trevor Moore Quotes

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

I don't really see the point in offensive comedy.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

I've made a lot of crazy comedy videos and said a lot of crazy things. If it's too offensive, I apologize and move on, but I do comedy.

That's what I love about 'MADtv': If you exist, if you breathe, we will take you down.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

You can parody almost anything.

As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

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

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

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.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

If you're satirizing something, you're hitting at something that's real and true, and putting it on its head, and we did that with 'Tropic Thunder.'

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.

I mean, no, I don't think anything is too far; you can make fun of anything.