Graham Linehan Quotes

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.

When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris' every sentence, it's easy to miss the more serious side of what he's up to.

The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.

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

Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

I'm totally comfortable not being as funny as Larry David.

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.

The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.

Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.