Elvis Mitchell Quotes

Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.

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.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

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.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

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.

The more real it is, the funnier it is. The more awkward it is, the more people are stumbly, the funnier it is. I like a sharp joke, but it has to say something that someone would actually say.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.

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

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

It's very hard to write humor.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.