Sean Lock Quotes

My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

I really like just super dry comedy.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

The best comedy is based on truth.

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

I've always had a very dry sense of humor, and I've pretty much grown up on Will Ferrell, first on 'Saturday Night Live,' then 'Old School' and 'Wedding Crashers.'

Our new programmes have always just been different vehicles for the same sort of comedy.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.

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.