Chris Rock Quotes

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

Comedians shame people.

As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and cry, the way musicians and actors can.

Everything I do is intended to make people laugh and think. I just think something is funny, it's not hurting anybody, not stabbing anybody, not shooting anybody, not making anybody watch me perform. There are thousands of comedians, don't come see me because it's not like I hide it.

It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln. He used to go to a pub near where he lived and stand in front of the fire and he packed the place every night and he would just talk and bust everybody in their guts. He was just a hilarious speaker and that’s what he did.

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.

It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We have very funny people, still.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

I know a lot about Jewish comedians.

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

I think comedians start off as pranksters or something.

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.