David Sedaris Quotes

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

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

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

I see parody as another form of comedy.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

If you're satirizing something, you're hitting at something that's real and true, and putting it on its head, and we did that with 'Tropic Thunder.'

In a satire, you need foolishness.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.