I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

George Carlin, probably the world’s greatest-ever comedian, once said that the comedian’s job is to find the line and then cross it.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.

I think people like a little more "personal revelation" in their comedy. And that's fine! They have-- There's three generations behind me doin' it. But my thing is: I want a number of jokes of a certain quality, and laughs. I want the room to just be ringin' with laughs.

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

The secret to humor is surprise.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they’ve never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people’s minds, exposing them to the light.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

I think it's quite enough to simply be sarcastic about something. I like to do that quite a lot, and it's one of my favorite things to look at. That's why I think there's a thin line between melodrama and satire, and I like to dance across that line sometimes. I like the story to take a very funny turn or have a character who is much more of a cartoon.

What I am good at -- and what every comedian is good at -- is knowing how to carefully manage an audience's attention span.

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

At its core, comedy is an act of rebellion. Evidence shows that compared to the norms in the population, comedians tend to be more original and rebellious — and the higher they score on these dimensions, the more professional success they attain.

I don’t keep any notion of certain lines that shouldn’t be crossed. I want my fellow actors to feel like they are free and can give any kind of performance, whatever seems natural. I think all actors would feel that way and I think it’s what the director would want as well.