Jonathan Krisel Quotes

I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.

I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

I really like just super dry comedy.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.

I'm a huge, huge fan of almost everything British. I love 'The Office' - I was a faithful follower of that show before the American version.

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't.

You know, I think British comedy is very smart comedy. You don't get too much dumb comedy over here. Or at least I haven't seen it. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize to all the dumb comedy makers over here.

British comedy fans go crazy.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

When I do watch things, they tend to be a lot of comedies. I actually like some of the British comedy series. But, on the whole, I'm not a huge viewer of anything.

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'

My humor was Victorian - and still is.

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.