Peter Kay Quotes

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

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.

Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.

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

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

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

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

Comedy comes from confusion.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

You can parody almost anything.

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.

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

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

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.

Funny is funny.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

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

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

Funny is funny is funny.