Brian Jordan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing.

  • Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better

  • You feel better when you're eating food that retains nutritional value.

  • To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

  • You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

  • There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

  • The toughest part is that when your kid's upset, you're upset. You're rocked until they're not upset. Even when they're not upset, you're like, "I hope that doesn't happen, down the line." You're always nervous because you want your kid to be happy.

  • No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

  • For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

  • The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

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