Warren Mitchell Quotes

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

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.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

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.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

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

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'm like a sight gag.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

In the end, everything is a gag.

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.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

Most of what I write is comedy.

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.

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