Bobby Moynihan Quotes

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.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

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

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

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.

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.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

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

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.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

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 think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

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.

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline.

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

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

I had this website that, at one point, I listed myself as 'actor, writer, comedian, and fart enthusiast' just because I thought that would be a really clear joke.

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.