Robin Williams Quotes

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

Humor is hostility.

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.

Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

In my comedy, I'm not always trying to say something, but when I'm playing a creepy dude, you're laughing because you know that creepy dude. You've heard that dude say something awful, and I'm just putting a little creative spin on it.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

I can't speak for everyone, but the kind of comedy that makes me laugh are the ones that kind of make me cringe, and kind of make me look inside my own fears, my own anxieties.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

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

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.