Rick Riordan Quotes

Humor is reason gone mad.

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

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

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I like really stupid comedies.

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

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

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.

I like idiotic comedies.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.

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

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.

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

If a wig is funny when it's two feet tall, why not make it three feet tall? Or ten?

Daft Wee Stories' is, as the title says, daft wee stories. I just sort of rattled them out, tried to make them quite funny, with punchlines - they're kind of like sketches.

Comedy characters that take themselves very seriously, but are actually fools, is so funny.

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

I want people to watch us and think, 'They're idiots. They're clowns,' I want them to watch us and think Tommy Cooper or Spike Milligan.

I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell.

I certainly got the jokes within the joke, dressing up in a wet suit, sitting in a Twingo, scaling a rubber mountain, dressing up and stealing a diamond, of course. If not now, when?

The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

There are parodies of non-existent things.