Del Close Quotes

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

In the end, everything is a gag.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

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.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Everything can be satirized.

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.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

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.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

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.

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.