Groucho Marx Quotes

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

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

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.

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

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

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

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

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

A joke's a very serious thing.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

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.

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

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

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.

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.

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