Observational Humor Quotes

I'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities.

When I write, I'm not trying to be funny. It's the way I look at the world.

I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.

I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.

Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.

I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down. Then, at night, I say the thought to people through a microphone. I don't think about politics or pop culture very much, so those thoughts don't often make it to the microphone.

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.

I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

Chris Martin looks like a geography teacher.

I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.

It bothers me when people say 'shock comic' or 'gross-out' because that was only one type of comedy I did. There was prank comedy. Man-on-the-street-reaction comedy. Visually surreal comedy. But you do something shocking, and that becomes your label.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

All these years I've sat in airports and kind of drawn people and put like Far Side captions on them.

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.

It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

I like insult comics. Joan Rivers, Dame Edna, people like that.

And sometimes you're not noticing a little eye movement that's hilarious. So it all kind of gets figured out in post. And that guy you were watching was this guy Murray Miller, who's actually not an actor, he's a writer that Rodney and I are friends with. He's just crazily funny, especially when hitting on people.

I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.