T. J. Miller Quotes

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

Humor is reason gone mad.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

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

I like really stupid comedies.

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

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

I like idiotic comedies.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

The best comedy is based on truth.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

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

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

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

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

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.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

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

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.