Natasha Leggero Quotes

I make jokes. That's what I do.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

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

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

My humor isn't meant to be mean or hurt anyone. But it's to make them uncomfortable and laugh. I like making people feel a different range of emotions. I like to make people a bit confused.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

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

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

Gags die, humor doesn't.

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.

An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

Paul Rudd has a very specific brand of humor.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.

I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags.

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

Comedy just comes naturally, so I've always gravitated to comedy.

Comedians play off of social commentary.