Jermaine Fowler Quotes

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy.

I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.

In my comedy, I'm not always trying to say something, but when I'm playing a creepy dude, you're laughing because you know that creepy dude. You've heard that dude say something awful, and I'm just putting a little creative spin on it.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

Sometimes, I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.

There's always a message in my comedy.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Films with a message just make me laugh.