One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
“Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.” — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I have never thought of my entertainment as being able to bring about social change. I am seriously always looking for the… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
“They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity. And I think that's the reason my act has become… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I can pretty much guarantee that if I do a show in a comedy club, there will be someone who will come… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I've seen the end of the universe, and it happens to be in the United States and, oddly enough, it's in Houston,… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind… — Lewis Black Copy Share
If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has… — Lewis Black Copy Share
I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of… — Lewis Black Copy Share
“I don't know if you've noticed, but our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking at itself in the mirror.” — Lewis Black Copy Share
These ballot initiatives against same sex marriage remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so… — Lewis Black Copy Share
If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?' — Lewis Black Copy Share
No matter what, your parents are going to worry about you. I had a tour bus, and my mother still thought I was broke.… — Lewis Black Copy Share
I'm always amazed when I hear people saying, "That George Bush, he's a great leader". And I wonder, where can one find a drug… — Lewis Black Copy Share
I knew that I'd lived in New York too long when, a few years ago, I was on a subway going downtown, and it… — Lewis Black Copy Share
If you're seeing a psychiatrist, you're wasting money because all you've got to do is get on a plane, get on a subway tomorrow… — Lewis Black Copy Share
Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap. — Lewis Black Copy Share
I'd like the campaigning to be about all the things they're not going to do. Just tell me what you're not going do! Don't… — Lewis Black Copy Share
Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York. — Lewis Black Copy Share
“At seven p.m., hope is sparked again when some new chirpy airline employee announces that a new plane without that nasty mechanical problem -… — Lewis Black Copy Share
