Authority Quote by Jimmy Dore

One of the jobs of comedy is to expose hypocrisy. When you look at countries like Iran or North Korea that don't have freedom…

— Maz Jobrani

For me, it's important to elevate the hypocrisy with humor. Then you really are using the humor to elevate the problem, saying this is…

— Lizz Winstead

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's…

— Bryan Cranston

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

— Hannah Gadsby

Comedy is very disarming. It's a way to talk about things and still be light-hearted. And when it's done really well, you never see…

— Hasan Minhaj

The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.

— Keegan-Michael Key

It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

— Doug Benson

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led…

— Al Franken

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject…

— Peter Sellers

There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't…

— Varun Grover

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

— Ari Graynor