Katherine Ryan Quotes

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

That's my family; we have a very British sense of humour, very dry.

People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too.

I would love to make a sarcastic film; I am so sarcastic that even my kids are now getting used to my sarcasm. You see it a lot in British comedy because that's their sense of humour.

I like whimsy and satire, and that's what Americans like so much about Brits. We bring subtlety and sense of humor that you sometimes lack. We have a very long history of importing Brits like Christopher Hitchens who are better at it than Americans are.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

When we created 'Goodness Gracious Me,' it was quoting 'Python' and Woody Allen lines that really bonded the writers, and the 'Spamalot' material is so utterly, wonderfully surreal that it hasn't dated.

I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.

I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.

I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

The British are so funny.

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

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

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.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.

I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot fight back. That is my limitation.

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 love British humor. It's just so - surreal.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.