Aisha Tyler Quotes

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

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.

I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address.

I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.

For me, in my mind personally and privately, there are no limits to comedy.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.