Pierce Brosnan Quotes

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

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

Humor is reason gone mad.

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.

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

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.'

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.

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.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

I like idiotic comedies.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

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.

Some comedies, they want you falling on your face and doing silly things.

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

In 'Hope Never Dies', the fictional Obama and Biden go up against drug traffickers, outlaw bikers, and other seedy opponents. They're forced to use skills they didn't know they had. Or, to put it another way, unlike Jordan Peele's Obama, this Obama doesn't need an anger translator.

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.

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

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

A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.