Stephen McCauley Quotes

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.

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

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.

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

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

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.

Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

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?

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

I love to play it. I think it's funny. It's always been funny to me. Somebody who's large and in charge but totally wrong-headed.

In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist.

Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.

Todd Solondz is a film maker I've always loved because of how he balances darkness, humour and surrealism in his films.

I love the humor of 'Monty Python.' I always remember being so impressed by how violent 'Monty Python' are, actually, when you look at what they do. Terry Gilliam has a great way of kind of proposing violence.

Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense.

The nice thing about gag manga is how it has this aspect where, at the very least, you're permitted to come out with anything. In my case, anything can talk. Like the mountains.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.