Christopher Priest Quotes

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

'Danger Girl' can be ridiculous, but sometimes it's funny.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy.

I just love Stephen Colbert. He's a genius.

We never dealt with satire or suggestive material. Although some of our films were broad parodies or burlesques of popular dramatic themes, there was no conscious attempt at being either sarcastic or offensive.

Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.

The 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' book was printed in every free country in the world, OK? Now, it's so good in its way that we can go in and make fun of it and feel good about it.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

That's part of the comedy, too, is we do have jokes throughout of hanging a lantern on the absurdity of the world. Like, when BoJack's flying over the neighborhood, you see some houses have swimming pools in the backyard, and what does that mean? Why would there be a swimming pool underwater? But we thought it was funny.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Humor is just truth, only faster!

The whole character of Super Dave is a takeoff on people who pontificate. So one thing I never want to do is pontificate why this works, why this is funny. I have no idea what the appeal is. All we are trying to do is make people have a good time and laugh.

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

I mean, no, I don't think anything is too far; you can make fun of anything.

I like intelligent comedies.