Ian Frazier Quotes

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

I never have been able to understand where the humor comes from.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.

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

Comedy is subjective, and any joke can be funny.

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

To me, comedy is a game.

The secret to humor is surprise.

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.