Mitch Hedberg Quotes

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

A joke's a very serious thing.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

I do love jokes.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

I love my jokes.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

My only rule about a joke is that it should be funny.

One nice thing about making jokes is that you don't have to prove them.

The really funny moments you notice throughout your life are very seldom generated by one person telling a joke.

I don't like jokes.

They're just jokes, people. They can't all be funny.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

I like humor.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.