Ted Lyons Quotes

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about all the lovely things that there are, which I do see as well - but there is a lot of outrageousness around, slightly covered up. And obviously, it's fun to take that a little bit further.

I love when people overexaggerate. It's so funny to me.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

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.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

You can parody almost anything.

Everything can be satirized.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.