Alethea Kontis Quotes

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

I'm all about being self-deprecating because I think it's hilarious.

I find it funny that I'm a pin-up.

I love an act that makes fun of the situation, and of course makes fun of yourself. That's important, you can't take yourself too seriously.

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

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

Cary Grant is really the master of not taking himself so seriously.

We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

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.