Top 40 Doug Benson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I used to make love to Green Day’s music. But 9 minutes? I’m not Superman.”

— Doug Benson

2. “A message to parents who think legalizing weed will make their kids want to try it: they will anyway.”

— Doug Benson

3. “Marijuana: why forget something tomorrow when you can forget it today?”

— Doug Benson

4. “Even if you are 18, my advice to you is: plan for your future.”

— Doug Benson

5. “Has anybody here ever been driving along in their car, smoking a cigarette, and you flick it out the window, and you drive for a few miles, and you start to smell smoke, and you turn around, and you look in the backseat, and grandma is playing with herself?”

— Doug Benson

6. “In Seattle, they have a saying: ‘If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes and then shoot yourself in the face.’”

— Doug Benson

7. “Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you’re better off not reading that stuff.”

— Doug Benson

8. “I just broke up with my girlfriend because I caught her lying. Under another man.”

— Doug Benson

9. “People say pot-smokers are lazy. I disagree; I’m a multitasking pot-smoker: just the other day I was walking down the street, I was putting eyedrops in my eyes, I was talking on my cell phone, and I was getting hit by a car.”

— Doug Benson

10. “I like Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory because some children deserve to be taken to a chocolate factory and tortured. I like Dawn of the dead because you don’t normally get to kill all of the zombies hanging out at the mall.”

— Doug Benson

11. “You know you drank too much the night before when you wake up with crop circles in your pubes.”

— Doug Benson

12. “You can’t always be 100-percent positive that a joke will work, so you’ve just got to try it. Fortunately, if one new joke doesn’t work, I’ve got lots of old ones that do. Just like cops, it’s important to have backup.”

— Doug Benson

13. “Willem Dafoe is a shithead.”

— Doug Benson

14. “In terms of my lungs, pot smoking is not like cigarette smoking. It doesn’t affect the lungs as quickly, or as much over time. If I stopped pot smoking today, my lungs could heal probably 100 percent in a few years.”

— Doug Benson

15. “I started doing pot jokes, and I noticed that audiences invariably love pot jokes. Even people who don’t smoke pot think it’s a funny subject.”

— Doug Benson

16. “A talking dog is not the answer. That’s not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking to me, I would up my pot consumption just to make that happen.”

— Doug Benson

17. “The whole pot-to-alcohol thing is a huge issue with me, because I’ve grown to hate drunks so much, and like potheads.”

— Doug Benson

18. “We don’t want any pot-smoking vaginas because that’s disgusting. And I saw it once in Indonesia, and I’ve never been able to get it out of my head.”

— Doug Benson

19. “P. Diddy’s gonna be exhausted, you know, running with the Olympic torch in one hand and the torch he’ll always carry for J-Lo in the other.”

— Doug Benson

20. “J-Lo finally married into her own music genre. Crappy music.”

— Doug Benson

21. “I’m sitting, waiting to get on the freeway, and I’m waiting my ass off. I look over at the side of the road, and there’s a hitchhiker with a sign and it says, ‘Pick me up, and you can drive in the carpool lane.’ I got to tell you, he was kind of smelly, but he was a good conversationalist.”

— Doug Benson

22. “If you ever go to Las Vegas, and you will, just go for a few days. I was there recently for seven days, seven days in Vegas. After I blew all my money on gambling and prostitution, I had six days to kill.”

— Doug Benson

23. “I hate how all the hip hop bands of today will put crazy sound effects into their songs. You know what I mean, like a police or ambulance siren in a tune? Because I could own the CD, I could listen to it 50 gamillion times in my car – I still fall for it every time.”

— Doug Benson

24. “A friend is someone I complain to about my other friends.”

— Doug Benson

25. “If someone wants to make a joke about me smoking too much pot, I’m not going to get mad at them, because I’ve put it out there that that’s what I do.”

— Doug Benson

26. “LL Cool J should be the spokesman for a line of pajamas called Ladies Love Cool Jammies.”

— Doug Benson

27. “I know there’s a lot of nasty humor directed at celebrities, but my feeling is, in most cases, they deserve it.”

— Doug Benson

28. “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.”

— Doug Benson

29. “Everyone wants to look good in photographs, even us trolls who tell jokes.”

— Doug Benson

30. “Stand-up is a very scary, very solitary profession, but you have to experience it to figure out if it’s right for you.”

— Doug Benson

31. “I made some jokes about weed, got some laughs, made some more jokes, got some more laughs; next thing you know, I’m telling a lot of jokes about it.”

— Doug Benson

32. “Tom Cruise shouldn’t try to win Oscars. He should just smile and kick people in the face and leave the acting to Hugh Jackman. Why Hugh Jackman? I dunno; come up with your own example, smart-ass.”

— Doug Benson

33. “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.”

— Doug Benson

34. “Do you get a nice monthly check from the government for dwelling on things?”

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35. “I like to go see a ball game. I’ll have seven, eight, nine – 10 beers, and the second inning will roll around, and I gotta go.”

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36. “It’s easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.”

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37. “Einstein used science to get laid. That guy is a genius. I’ve been using money.”

— Doug Benson

38. “I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.”

— Doug Benson

39. “Why would any woman agree to be on a show called Bridezillas? It’s not like men would agree to be on Douchegroom.”

— Doug Benson

40. “Any comedic entertainment is better when you get high.”

— Doug Benson

41. “The great thing about being up early on a Sunday is nothing.”

— Doug Benson

42. “Rappers should be forced to rhyme in their acceptance speeches.”

— Doug Benson