Carlos Mencia Quotes

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I see myself primarily as a comedian, and my aim on the 'Last Leg' is to be as funny as I can about the news.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

I love doing theaters, cracking people up, hearing them physically roll in the aisles. But we need to get serious. These are serious times. No joke. No joke.

My primary responsibility is to be funny.

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.

Chris Rock is a very funny man.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.