Caustic Humor Quotes

I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.

My father was a master of the cutting insult.

I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in "Stripes." Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view.

Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's quite literary over here, and alternative comedy isn't so alternative.