Paul Rudd Quotes

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.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

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

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

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

There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren't meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.

I've always found the world funny and enjoy laughing at it, and that's what all comedians do.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

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

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

There is a universality to comedy.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

I like really stupid comedies.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.