Charlie Brooker Quotes

The only Batman that doesn't need parodying is Adam West, but everybody else is fair game.

Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn't really take it seriously; any man who wears his underpants outside his pants just cannot be taken seriously.

The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.

People love Batman, and I would be stupid, I would be a fool if I didn't love Batman.

The only way to write Batman, if you get the chance - and I hope everyone out there gets the chance - is to imagine you made him up.

When 'Iron Man' came out, I said, 'Oh - they are trying to have some fun.' It was a relief because every superhero movie had become so damn serious. Some people love that, but for me, it's a weird thing to watch. A man with a cape can have fun, but I won't listen to a lecture from him.

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

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.

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.

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