Al Yankovic Quotes

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.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.

I'm a very funny man, so funny comes natural. And if you want to create horror, you need to be funny or campy.

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

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

I'm not sure a lot of us in the music business or in rock 'n' roll are given credit for irony or humor.

Comedians play off of social commentary.

I'd do an exercise video because there are so many gay men with these perfect abs and they do exercise videos. So I did an exercise video where my stomach looked like my water's about to break.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about all the lovely things that there are, which I do see as well - but there is a lot of outrageousness around, slightly covered up. And obviously, it's fun to take that a little bit further.

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire.

I think comedy is a genre that has a lot of potential. It is a very content-driven film genre.

Comedy can do so much more than make you laugh.

I just knew it would get a big laugh when people saw the 'Flying Nun' throwing the bird to a highway patrolman.

I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop laughing that they just took something in that's going to start a conversation.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

The 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' book was printed in every free country in the world, OK? Now, it's so good in its way that we can go in and make fun of it and feel good about it.

The secret of comedy is enjoying it. If you're not laughing, it's not going to be funny.

Comedy can be a lot more fun if you try something unique.

Comedy is very effortless.

Comedy is just an unspoken language. Everybody understands it. Funny is funny. When it's not funny, they'll let you know.