Trevor Noah Quotes

There's always a message in my comedy.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

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

The best bloggers have tongue planted firmly in cheek.

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 like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

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.

We have a curious relationship with 'funny' in the U.K. We love to laugh, but we also think that making people laugh is just a little bit second-tier, especially in a literary context.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

Humor's a weapon if you want to make it one.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

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.

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.