George Orwell Quotes

I'll make fun of anybody. We're all about falling down and going boom on camera.

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

You can parody almost anything.

Everything can be satirized.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I'm like a sight gag.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

I think one of the funniest things about '30 Rock' is that Liz Lemon is sort of like Buster Keaton - she's always the fool, the joke is always on her.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.