Adam Conover Quotes

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

The best comedy not only makes you laugh, but on the moment of the laugh, you learned.

Comedy can do so much more than make you laugh.

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.

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.

I always feel that comedy, at its best, tackles issues that are controversial, polarizing, volatile, and sheds light onto those issues and the people involved.

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.

I wanna be funny, but if I have a chance to make a point while being funny - why not?

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.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

Humor is hostility.