I think we’re all good and bad, but good’s not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

Larry David’s remark frames comedy as an art of revealing the socially “bad” or disreputable impulses people usually conceal—pettiness, selfishness, resentment, taboo thoughts. The claim that “good’s not funny” doesn’t deny moral goodness; it suggests that straightforward virtue tends to be narratively smooth and predictable, while transgression creates friction, surprise, and conflict—the raw materials of humor. In David’s work, laughs often come from saying the impolite thing aloud or acting on a minor grievance that polite society expects one to swallow. The quote also hints at a method: to be funny, a performer suppresses the impulse to appear admirable and instead gives voice to the darker, more candid inner monologue.