Alex Hirsch Quotes

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

It's very hard to write humor.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

The 'Beavis and Butt-head' movie was just a movie-length version of the TV show.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

I guess that compared to other comic strips, I'm edgy. But put me along something like 'South Park,' and I'm 'Captain Kangaroo.'

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

'Family Guy' is relentlessly excellent.

If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

Look at 'Batman' - that was theater of the absurd, as is 'Family Guy.'

Basically, if you like 'Deadpool,' you'll love 'Captain Underpants.'

Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of 'Mad' magazine.

I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

Tina Fey writes crazy, off-color, racist, hilarious stuff for '30 Rock,' but it's always funny because you're in this almost two-dimensional world where there's Jenna Maroney and these over-the-top characters. That's the framework.