Sophie Marceau Quotes

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

I've always found the world funny and enjoy laughing at it, and that's what all comedians do.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

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

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

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

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

Everything can be satirized.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

There is a universality to comedy.

As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.