Chance Quote by Mel Brooks

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

If you're using comedy to shame people for getting informed and questioning authority, you're not doing comedy, you're doing propaganda, 'cause comedy is supposed…

— Jimmy Dore

I can't find someone funny whom I don't like. Hitler told great jokes. I didn't find it funny at all.

— Ricky Gervais

Even if the country is run by a Mussolini, free speech will find its way.

— Kamal Haasan

People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it.

— Michael Keaton

Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles…

— Denis Leary

What I've learned about comedy people is that they're defined by the harshest level they've been to, their personal Auschwitz.

— Bob Saget

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine…

— James Thurber

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

— Rachel Parris

I don't look at comedy as a sliding scale of offensiveness.

— Lee Mack

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

— Bob Newhart