Thomas Middleditch Quotes

Humor is reason gone mad.

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.

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

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

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.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

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.

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.

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.

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

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

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

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.