Fearless Humor Quotes

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

Joan Rivers was my hero.

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.

Stand-up comedy is not for the faint-hearted or the thin-skinned.

I've said jokes where I thought people might get up and hit me for this. A couple of people have thought about it. But they didn't. It gives you a lot of power, because if you're on shows where people are worried about getting sacked and you're not, then you're transcendent because you say what other people would like to say.

Lily Tomlin was one of the early comedy greats who influenced my courage to be the person I am.

When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.

It's tough to do comedy. After 'Mister', my inhibitions with respect to comedy have come down.

I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.

What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.

I loved smart and fearless comedians like Joan Rivers and Don Rickles. When they started out, what they did wasn't always socially accepted, but they both had careers that lasted over 50 years.