Hannibal Buress Quotes

I'm all about being self-deprecating because I think it's hilarious.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

I am a walking joke.

If you like dry humor, Henrik Stenson thinks he's very funny, but I think I'm very funny in a dry sense as well.

It's how we live, making fun of ourselves.

It's hard to make a joke out of someone that's a joke.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

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

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

You can make fun of everything.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.