Kristen Wiig Quotes

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

I really like just super dry comedy.

I've never really loved mean comedy.

I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.

I tend to like dry humor.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

I think the way comedy is represented on screen is it's either all fart jokes - and it's just laughter for the sake of laughter - or it's one of those things where it's just kind of very preachy, very heavy-handed.

I prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.

I like very straight comedy.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.