Being Quote by Phoebe Robinson

For a lot of comics who aren't as silly or physical but more intellectual, we get looked at as 'alt comics.' No, I'm still…

— Amanda Seales

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

— Trevor Noah

Meta-comedy is everywhere and always seems so cold and to me is really kinda snarky.

— Bo Burnham

There are many comics around who don't really have a feel for comedy. They can say outrageous things, have clever thoughts, and deliver some…

— Ronnie Corbett

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

— George Carlin

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because…

— Trey Parker

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a…

— Greg Behrendt

With comics it's very close, like, "I don't want to say anything onstage that I wouldn't say offstage." Or vice versa. I say "faggot"…

— Neal Brennan

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of…

— Peter Cameron

When you spend your day writing comedy, particularly with others, the discussion of jokes and how far to push things with a group of…

— Romesh Ranganathan

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

— Hayden Schlossberg

If a comic laughs at their own jokes, I don't like it. They shouldn't find it funny; they should seriously believe in this stupid…

— James Acaster