Bertrand Russell Quotes

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

I don't take myself seriously. Others should take me seriously, I don't.

In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

I don't just try to be funny.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

I don't gossip about myself.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left.