Christopher Morley Quotes

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

I am pretty sarcastic and pretty dry.

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.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it's kind of hilarious.

I have an incredibly dry sense of humor.

I tend to do stuff that is in some way tongue in cheek or humorous or has a kind of wry side to it.

There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of my brain was alive and well before Twitter.

I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.

What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate and how they deal with disaster because they're worldly enough to have a bit of irony and wryness about their own circumstances. So, I think the humour comes out of that.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.

Judah Friedlander, I'm ok with you being the world champion for a few years more. That's a hook with legs. But I think he should make one more hat, that says 'there's a limit to how funny words on a hat can be'. And then move to a chapeau.

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

Nothing's true that I say, because I don't really want to say anything. I don't think my life's that cool, and I don't think my opinion's that valid. They're just silly jokes. Usually I just take a topic that isn't funny at all, like Shakespeare, and work backwards. I just try to find an unfunny subject.