Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

I like really stupid comedies.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

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

Louis CK is so brilliant and smart and clever and funny and also very bizarre.

My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.

Daft Wee Stories' is, as the title says, daft wee stories. I just sort of rattled them out, tried to make them quite funny, with punchlines - they're kind of like sketches.

I love when people overexaggerate. It's so funny to me.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'

Humor is reason gone mad.

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.

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

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

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

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.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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