Hasan Minhaj Quotes

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

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.

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

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

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.

Comedy can be very deep sometimes.

'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we're always going to push the humiliation levels.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

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

Everything can be satirized.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.