Rick Riordan Quotes

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.

And I could always set Coach Hedge on fire,” Leo volunteered. “Then he can be fire.” The thought of a blazing satyr screaming, “Die, scumbag!” as he attacked Gaea was almost enough to make Piper laugh— almost.

Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

I like idiotic comedies.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

And I have to say, for the record, my favorite line from 'Without A Clue' is after Michael Caine pokes a dead body with a stick and announces to everyone, 'It is my opinion that this man is dead.'

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

In the end, everything is a gag.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.