A Quote by Hannibal Buress

Comedy is basically self-deprecation.

Hannibal Buress

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Basically Comedy Self

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Hannibal Buress
American - Comedian
Born: February 4, 1983

First off, I don't do self-deprecation comedy based on being fat. I would always talk about it honestly. Secondly, I don't care how much I weigh.

Jeff Garlin

Self-deprecation is my game.

Steve Lukather

Self-deprecation is not the answer to humility.

Viola Davis

Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.

Terri E Apter

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

Viola Davis

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

Margaret Cho

The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

Max Lucado

I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.

Jane Krakowski

I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary.

John McEnroe

We're never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation.

Bryan Fogel

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

Mordecai Richler

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

Zachary Lazar

Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.

Amy Pietz

The topic of global warming is so heavy that sometimes the only way you can open people's eyes is by greeting them with levity and self-deprecation first.