Laura Linney Quotes

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

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

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

I'm like a sight gag.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.