Kyle Bornheimer Quotes

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.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

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

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

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

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

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

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

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.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

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

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

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.

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.'

There is a universality to comedy.

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.

I like really stupid comedies.