We’ve got a bunch of funny quotes from famous comedians and comedians about comedy. Some of the famous quotes we’re featuring include: “Comedy is tragedy plus time” – George Carlin, “Comedy is tragedy plus time” – George Carlin, “To make people laugh you only need to be funny, but to make them think you must be intelligent” – George Carlin, “The truth is you can make people laugh without being funny. You don’t need to be funny. You don’t need to be a comedian
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Anybody can do that” – Bill Hicks, “I think the only way the world will end is if there is a midlife crisis in the White House. The last thing we need in this country is for both houses of Congress to suddenly turn into a bunch of middle-aged men who have never been with a woman and have no idea how to relate to younger women” – Jerry Seinfeld, “There are only two types of comedy: bad, and good. If it isn’t either one it isn’t really comedy at all because it doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
It exists within a culture. And if you don’t know enough about that culture then you can’t create comedy that works there. So I never feel uncomfortable working in other areas if I know what that culture is all about.
Like being Jewish or being black or being gay… I feel comfortable with them all because I know enough about each of those cultures so I can write something about them and make it funny rather than make fun of them which would be offensive instead of funny. So I think it makes comedy better when you go into other cultures and learn their history and learn their language and learn their customs and learn all that stuff so you can create good comedy… And when you write something that comes out sounding like bad comedy then no one laughs because it isn’t good comedy at all. It just sounds like some hack trying to be funny by using some hack jokes that aren’t really funny anyway because they aren’t unique enough to get a laugh out of people so they get annoyed by them instead of laughing at them so the audience ends up not enjoying it at all… So I think having some knowledge about other cultures makes me more aware of what things are actually funny so when I hear jokes that sound