Toby Turner Quotes

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

Humor is reason gone mad.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

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.

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

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

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

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 you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

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.

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

I like really stupid comedies.

I don't mind being a buffoon.

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.

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

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

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