Comedians & Satirists

Truth-tellers who made us laugh to keep from crying.

15 entries

Bill Hicks

American · 1961–1994

“It's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice.”

Bo Burnham

American · 1990–

“Come and watch the skinny kid with a steadily declining mental health, and laugh as he attempts to give you what he cannot give himself.”

Charlie Chaplin

British · 1889–1977

“We think too much and feel too little.”

Dorothy Parker

American · 1893–1967

“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”

George Carlin

American · 1937–2008

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

Groucho Marx

American · 1890–1977

“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish · 1667–1745

“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.”

Lenny Bruce

American · 1925–1966

“The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.”

Mark Twain

American · 1835–1910

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

Mitch Hedberg

American · 1968–2005

“I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.”

Richard Pryor

American · 1940–2005

“I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.”

Robin Williams

American · 1951–2014

“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.”

Stephen Colbert

American · 1964–

“It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore.”

Tina Fey

American · 1970–

“You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”

Voltaire

French · 1694–1778

“Il faut cultiver notre jardin.”

“We must cultivate our garden.”