Jeff Ross Quotes

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Humor is hostility.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

I don't really see the point in offensive comedy.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

Comedy often comes at the expense of others, and to do that smartly, you don't want to make fun of vulnerable people. You want to make fun of people in power, and so you need to really understand the dynamics of power.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

Jokes are grievances.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.