Demetri Martin Quotes

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

It is difficult not to write satire.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

I'd say Jon Stewart has remained funny the entire time. Jon always makes it funny first. And he's just, he's talking about serious things, but in a funny way. Other comedians will talk about serious things in a serious way, and then you don't know what's going on.

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

'Blithe Spirit' is played almost all over Britain somewhere at all times because it is such a unique and ridiculously funny show. But it's also, in fact, under those layers of humor, a very serious show. It's quite misogynistic.

I really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

I've always found the world funny and enjoy laughing at it, and that's what all comedians do.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.