Judd Apatow Quotes

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.

Humor was a good way to hide the pain.

Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

The idea of evil is always subject to denial as a coping mechanism.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

We have to joke about it because the alternative is to be scared

Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.

I feel like the only thing that I can do, and I've been fired from enough jobs, that I'm pretty confident in saying this, the only thing that I can do, even a little bit better than most people, is create that sort of that context with humor. And that's my way of not being helpless and not being hopeless.

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

Humor is his defense mechanism, so that would allow me to talk about some serious subjects, but get a lot of hilarious jokes in.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh.

I think everyone is given drama, by virtue of the fact that we all have drama in our lives, but not everyone can make people laugh.

All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.