About Quote by Riaad Moosa

People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's…

— Russell Peters

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk…

— Neil Gaiman

The apartheid people were actors, and they had to act out their part in their beliefs every day. That's why we always saw them…

— Hugh Masekela

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 something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us…

— Paul Goodman

I think comedy is definitely a good thing, because it allows people to talk from their own lived experience and I think it allows…

— Judi Love

There are definitely racial problems in this country [the USA]. Comedy is a way we can figure out how to solve it, and how…

— Margaret Cho

Race is still somewhat of a taboo in comedy. But if you're a minority, then you can make fun of your own minority. And…

— Emo Philips

Comedy can be silly and gross and offensive, as long as there's sort of a point. You can make a joke that, on the…

— Steve Coogan

When I was studying comedy in Chicago, it wasn't long after 9/11. There were a lot Middle Eastern comedians who were doing bits about…

— Kumail Nanjiani

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

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again…

— Andrew Shue