Briga Heelan Quotes

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

Funny is when you're serious.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

Most of my artwork is geared towards being humorous in some light.

You can get away with a lot as long as it has a silly edge to it.

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

In comedy you are allowed to be weird - and even applauded for it.

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

Sometimes the stuff I come up with is so silly I feel like I need to apologize at the end of every one of them.

What I do with impressions, I try not to be mean-spirited. To me, it's just about being silly.

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

I can't not put humor in a book.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

Comedy should be easy, not laboured.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.