Comedy Goal Quotes

I'll do anything to get the laugh. I love it.

I would love to host 'Saturday Night Live.' That's one of my goals in life - just putting that out there. I don't know if I'm funny enough, but we'll see.

There's no great secret or plan, I just think I'm funny and I want to make people laugh.

I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

People come to my shows on purpose as opposed to coming to a 'comedy show.' Which was always my goal.

If you can make just one person laugh, then you are already doing better than Tony Danza.

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.

If you ask who I aspire to, well, if a single line of mine was as funny as P. G. Wodehouse can be, that would be great.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

I want to make everybody laugh.

We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.

People would say, "Oh, you say you just do jokes." I don't just do jokes. I do jokes. Jokes are important. They saved my life when I was younger. Hopefully we're making things nicer at the end of the day for people. That's the entire goal, and that's the touchstone and the North Star for the tone.

I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible.

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

My job is to make people laugh. If I've upset them instead, then I haven't done my job properly.

The goal is doing stand-up on TV somewhere, which is what I'm working on. Something on latenight or Comedy Central, but - I dunno, something. It could happen, it could not happen.