Ken Jeong Quotes

Comedy is saving me.

This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, 'Oh my God, how girls get ready? This is hilarious. I love this; I'm forgetting about all my problems.'

When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.

Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

If I was a very stable person, I would not have to do comedy. Nobody would have to listen to me.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

Part of my therapy is to write.

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

I started cooking out of middle school depression.

I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a place to escape to.

Just performing is where I'm happiest, and gets me rid of my troubles and worries.

I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.