Eugene Mirman Quotes

For a short period of time, I was like, I have these jokes and if people get them, they get them. And then eventually, I was like, Oh no. It's absolutely my job to convey to people why what I think is funny, is funny. The whole point of standup is to get the audience to understand your weird point of view.

Eugene Mirman

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• There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• I will stand up for a girl who is being harassed or bullied for choosing to wear revealing clothes. I will stand up for that!

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Stand

• Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Favorite
  • Standup

• Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Popular

• Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

  

  Walter Murch
  • View
  • Point Of View
  • Puzzle

• Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Long
  • Always
  • Jokes

• I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Husband
  • View
  • Point Of View

• Most jokes state a bitter truth.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Truth
  • Bitter
  • Jokes

• We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Time
  • Jokes
  • Trolls

• People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Firsts
  • Ifs
  • Views

• I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Life
  • Knows
  • Should

• The older you get, the funnier fart jokes are.

  

  Andy Samberg
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  • Fart

• You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Might
  • Generations
  • Jokes

• I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Up
  • Guy

• America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Imagination
  • Bitter
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• My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Jokes

• Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Obstacles
  • Standup

• Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Character
  • Book
  • Reader

• Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Free
  • Words
  • Poetry

• I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.

  

  Morarji Desai
  • Thinking
  • Reason
  • Should

• For a short period of time, I was like, I have these jokes and if people get them, they get them. And then eventually, I was like, Oh no. It's absolutely my job to convey to people why what I think is funny, is funny. The whole point of standup is to get the audience to understand your weird point of view.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Jokes
  • Standup
  • Point Of View