Marshall Brickman Quotes

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

I never think I want to try to be funny. And humor, if there is anything funny, should come from a real place.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

My instincts are not comedic.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a relatable situation and Bach it up.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.