Sarah Dessen Quotes

A joke's a very serious thing.

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.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious.

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn't normally.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

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

My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

A man should always be drunk when he talks politics – it's the only way in which to make them important.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

I have the comedic chops and intelligence to raise points and discuss both sides of whatever is on our mind as a society.

'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.

I’m a ridiculous person. If you take anything any comedian says seriously, then you’re stupid.

Ridicule is also a weapon against forces of evil. Really clever, intelligent ridicule.

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

What this world needs is a few more Rednecks.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.