Doug TenNapel Quotes

Music is never inherently funny!

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

I like things that are sort of comic and humorous rather than satirical.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Humor is reason gone mad.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedy should be easy, not laboured.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

You know, funny can be universal.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

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

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.