Baron Vaughn Quotes

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

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

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

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.

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

I'm not a big 'scripted comedy' person necessarily. I'm open for wherever comedy can be found.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

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

I'm a very funny man, so funny comes natural. And if you want to create horror, you need to be funny or campy.

The caustic style of 'Archer' was really on my mind when I was first doing 'BoJack' - perhaps too much!

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

I'm not a fan of the Michael Keaton 'Batman,' which came out in 1989.

I'm a 'Saturday Night Live' guy. I'm a comedy guy. As long as they're giving it to everyone, I don't care about how low they go, most of the time.

I think 'Deadpool' worked because of what it was. I think 'Deadpool' worked because it was funny. I think 'Deadpool' worked because it didn't take itself seriously. That's why it worked as an R-rated film.

The only Batman that doesn't need parodying is Adam West, but everybody else is fair game.

My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ' 'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.

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

We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you?

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

There is nothing that's off limits. If people think something is off limits, I make it my business to go make a joke about it; that's my job.