Paula Patton Quotes

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

As a comedian, I am attracted to truths that are uncomfortable. I like funny bummers.

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

But as far as being popular, yeah, I think Dave Barry is really funny.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian.

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Humor is the ultimate truth. If it’s not true, the joke is not funny.

The best cartoons work by making fun of sacred cows, in trying to inflict the uncomfortable.

It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.

Paul Rudd has a very specific brand of humor.

Comedians are obsessed with justice and the truth.

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

I like Colbert because he's funny, and he's cool. He knows how to have fun and doesn't stick his nose up to Fox.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?