Jim Jefferies Quotes

I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.

When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box.

Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

One horselaugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms.

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

Satire also allows you to make fun of every different aspect. It allows you to make fun of both sides. It allows you to make fun of everything, really, so you can do it in a harmless way.

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

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

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.