John Mulaney Quotes

It's an odd world.

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

I think I was the only person in my experimental film class doing comedy. But my sense of humor and a lot of comedy that I love is quite surreal and strange, you know? You could argue that 'Monty Python' is experimental film. It just happens to be really funny.

'W1A' is heightened naturalism, whereas 'The Windsors' is like the fever dream of a 'National Enquirer' reader.

I try not to be one particular type of comedian - I try to be foolish, and silly, and surreal, and quite angry and sarcastic and dry.

Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets.

I'm a fan of, like, the Coen Brothers, with the darker humor in it.

I have surreal dreams, so much so that I can never make head nor tail of them.

I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.

I like being a part of David Cronenberg’s world, I feel very at home there

I just love the ideal of the surreal quality of putting it on a shoe.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

Float with me in the world of ether.

I was just trying to blend the standup that I do almost with like the visual sketch stuff that I did on "Saturday Night Live." And so in terms of how elastic in the world is, we'll see what we can get away with [in John Mulaney show].

It was like the Wizard of Oz had spoken, and what he said was too ludicrous to take seriously.

Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world.

It's the strange world.' 'The strangest.

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.