“That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.” IfsLongMadeBookCareMotherReadingRoomsGrowing UpGrowingStupidFilledSavedComicCollectionsComic Book Author:Stan Lee
“I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic... And those were all things I hated.” WritingYearsChildrenBookStoriesYoungFeltStupidPleaseAdultsComicHatedComic BookPublishersYoung Children Author:Stan Lee
“The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.” IfsCareJobsSimpleAudienceLaughingStupidFunctionDrunkComicLaughedStraightforward Author:Marcus Brigstocke
“Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity. And I think that's the reason my act has become more political. I've become somewhat more of a political comic because the level of stupidity I've watched is staggering.” ThinkingReasonPoliticalLevelsStupidObviousStupidityComicStaggering Author:Lewis Black
“Will Ferrell is probably the funniest comic actor, certainly of my generation. I am a huge, huge Will Ferrell fan. I'm not a huge comedy buff, truthfully. What I find funny is either something unbelievably stupid, like Dumb And Dumber or Airplane!, where the jokes are just so stupid and pointless, or something like The Office or The Comeback, where the humor is in the excruciating awkwardness of a situation. Stella kind of explores both of those, stupidity and awkwardness.” KindSituationComedyStupidOfficeJokesStupidityComicDumbAirplanePointlessComebackAwkwardness Author:Michael Showalter
“Smoking pot makes people talk for long periods of time, for instance, so people who advocate pot won't shut the hell up about it. On the other hand, no one really needs to defend drinking. That's something that frustrates me as a comic: I have to play clubs where selling booze runs the business, so crowds get drunk and yell out a bunch of stupid stuff at me. Pot doesn't cause people to do that. I did a show in Amsterdam a few months ago, and people weren't yelling stuff out at all. They also weren't laughing very much, but I think they were still having a good time.” PeopleThinkingLongRunningLaughingHellStupidDrinkingSellingDrunkComicSmokingGood TimesPotHaving A Good Time Author:Doug Benson
“When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.” KnowsEnoughDreamKidsWantedActorsActingLaughingTakenStupidSeriousDisciplineComicRealisingDaniel Day Lewis Author:Chris O'Dowd