Subjective Comedy Quotes

I've always maintained that I don't think comedy should be reviewed. I think it's un-reviewable, because it is so subjective.

Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.

Comedy is so subjective. If you trip and fall down, some people will laugh, and some people will say, 'Oh, physical comedy is so pedestrian.' Some people look at Three Stooges as lowbrow; some people consider them artists. No one is wrong. It's just a personal take.

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.

Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

We only ever write jokes that amuse us.

I have no line. If I think it's funny, it's funny.

I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

When you're doing comedy, it is so subjective. What is funny to you is not funny to another person. What is dirty to you is not dirty to the other person. Comedy is one of those things you throw against the wall and see what sticks.

Comedy is subjective, so if you don't like it, that's fine.

If the audience is responding very well to comedians that are hacks, and I don't do well, I don't feel as bad, because I feel like their taste is different than mine. They're laughing at somebody I would never laugh at, so that makes it okay, because obviously our tastes are not in the same place. And comedy is subjective, so I feel like maybe the failure wasn't all mine. I don't think they ever would have really enjoyed me. So sometimes that's a little easier, but not much.

I'm a professional comic. Whether you think I'm funny or not, that's, again, subjective.

I don't really like comedy that gives you answers.