Michael Moore Quotes

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

I personally find it difficult to accept that there could be anyone on earth insensitive to the comic abilities of Laurel and Hardy, Sid Caesar, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, or Martin Short. But no matter who the comic entertainer is, there is always at least a minority prepared to say, 'What's all the excitement about? He doesn't seem funny to me.'

Comedy is subjective, and any joke can be funny.

Just because you're laughing, it doesn't mean the audience will, necessarily.

Any joke can be funny, but not any joke is funny. Any joke has the potential to be hilarious to you, but more importantly, the joke has the potential to not be funny to you but to someone else.

The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often I'm surprised at what an audience will or will not laugh at. I have to stay very, very open to an audiences first exposure to that material and how they react to it.

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

Funny is funny, and it can come in 8 billion different shades and flavors, so I think it's silly to kind of limit it.

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

I have no line. If I think it's funny, it's funny.

There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.