I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.
English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.
Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye for retail, either.
To the extent that there is anything properly identifiable as dignity in our society today, our present writers of comedy would be inclined to treat it as a proper object of ridicule.
Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.
Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.
It's the worst noise in the world: me analyzing the reasons for making a podcast about U2.
People get mad at bad comedy. Way more mad than at bad novels.
Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
The thing I have learned, especially in the Internet age, probably the easiest thing in the world is to declare that something is not funny. I mean it's not actually humor to say something is not funny, but it is viewed by a lot of people - and by that I mean mainly snarky young Internet men - as a kind of humor in and of itself is putting down other people's efforts at humor. And I don't care that much anymore about that because I know how easy that is to do.
Joy Behar... Is never even funny accidentally.
I don't know what they are protesting at Occupy Wall Street but I'm on their side. But 10,000 protestors and one Porta Potty?
If the worst thing happening to Middle Eastern people is that Carlos Mencia is doing a joke about them being stopped at airports, that's a pretty awesome state of affairs.
My least favorite joke right now is Donald Trump.
Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.
I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance.
I just am a snob when it comes to humor.
The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
Every time I see Dan Quayle I feel like buying a vowel.
We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
