Bob Mortimer Quotes

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

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.

I've always had a very dry sense of humor, and I've pretty much grown up on Will Ferrell, first on 'Saturday Night Live,' then 'Old School' and 'Wedding Crashers.'

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

My instincts are not comedic.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

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 like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

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

A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a relatable situation and Bach it up.

Obviously comedic styles do change.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

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