Yvonne Orji Quotes

I'm like a sight gag.

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 are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored.

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

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

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.

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 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 the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

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.

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

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

If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.

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.

In my comedy, I'm not always trying to say something, but when I'm playing a creepy dude, you're laughing because you know that creepy dude. You've heard that dude say something awful, and I'm just putting a little creative spin on it.

I'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities.

Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.

The definition of comedy is 'unsafe space' - you can't control what people laugh at.