Tim Heidecker Quotes

Humor is reason gone mad.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

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

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

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

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

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

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

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

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

That's part of the comedy, too, is we do have jokes throughout of hanging a lantern on the absurdity of the world. Like, when BoJack's flying over the neighborhood, you see some houses have swimming pools in the backyard, and what does that mean? Why would there be a swimming pool underwater? But we thought it was funny.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

I'm so happy, I think I'll dress up like J. Edgar Hoover and sing show tunes.

The thing about Donald [Trump] is the jokes write themselves. I don't even think of it to be trolling. What he says is the joke.