Comic Quote by Don Rickles

I used to be an insult comic, and I didn't end up liking the way that I felt about myself.

— Zach Anner

Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.

— Lisa Lampanelli

What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things. And I'm…

— Don Rickles

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

— Suzanne Fields

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

— Sandra Bernhard

I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping…

— Dan Fox

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.

— Wayne Knight

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people…

— Tracey Ullman

The biggest insult is that I've been called an exaggerator... I tell the truth as I know it. I don't glamorize the nightmare and…

— Lydia Lunch

Compared to what comics say today, I'm a monk, but in those days, it was unheard of to make fun of people like I…

— Don Rickles

I have a comic character - my sister said that I'm the victim of every joke I tell.

— Maria Bamford

“The rhetorical function of such depictions is, in any case, pretty obvious. If cartoons provide us with examples of a visual mode of insult,…

— Thomas Conley