Jim Butcher Quotes

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

I don't mind being a buffoon.

The 'Phoenix Sun' did a list of the unsexiest men in the world, and I made it to number one. I beat out Bin Laden. He's a terrorist, hasn't bathed in months. I beat him out. To me it was a great honor.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we're always going to push the humiliation levels.

I don't take myself or the species too seriously. You have to laugh at everything.

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

My problem is people seem to laugh at me, but the one that laughs harder than anybody is me.

If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

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

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.