Stephen Karam Quotes

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

All theatre is absurd.

I've always loved absurdism and plays of that genre. I think that my humour is very much rooted in theatre and drama.

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.

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.

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

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one of the two bowler-hatted tramps who pass the time in a lunar landscape as they wait in vain for the arrival of a Mr. Godot.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

Look at 'Batman' - that was theater of the absurd, as is 'Family Guy.'

In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist.

I love the humor of 'Monty Python.' I always remember being so impressed by how violent 'Monty Python' are, actually, when you look at what they do. Terry Gilliam has a great way of kind of proposing violence.

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

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

One thing I'm a big fan of is the theater of the absurd. That's what I come from, that's what I love to do more than anything. What I love about absurdity is the words "comedy" and "drama" get thrown out the window and it's just life, which is absurd.

I think absurdist humor is funny.

It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.

I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.

Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.