Mark Linn-Baker Quotes

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

I like really stupid comedies.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

I like idiotic comedies.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

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

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

The word 'comedy' implies slapstick.

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

The hardest that I've laughed at a movie was probably Team America. I laughed 'til I thought I was just gonna throw up. I almost had to turn it off.

My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.

Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.

I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

My comedy is a bit cartoonlike, if I really think about it.

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.