Michael Patrick King Quotes

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

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

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

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

A laugh is a terrible weapon.

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

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

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

If it gets laughs, it's funny.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.