Comedy Quote by John Waters

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking and dirty.…

— John Waters

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

— Jonathan Krisel

I don't think any comedy is ever shocking. I don't buy that. That's just what people brand it, when someone is saying something they…

— Jim Norton

I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.

— Sam Kinison

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people…

— Abe Burrows

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected…

— Jonah Hill

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.…

— Tom Green

It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying to be…

— Emily Mortimer

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

— Seth MacFarlane

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

— Norm MacDonald

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to…

— Harold Ramis

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in…

— Seth MacFarlane