Ori Gersht Quotes

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

As satirists, we get to stand on the sidelines of life and comment on what's happening.

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

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

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.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

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

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

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

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.