Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

You know, funny can be universal.

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

Puns are a form of humor with words.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

You can parody almost anything.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

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.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

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

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

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

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.