Terry Pratchett Quotes

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't do anything. It just spins for no reason. Which is nice because it frees our wheel up to really pursue its dream: becoming a professional paddlewheel.

'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.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

In my comedy, I'm not always trying to say something, but when I'm playing a creepy dude, you're laughing because you know that creepy dude. You've heard that dude say something awful, and I'm just putting a little creative spin on it.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

You can parody almost anything.

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

Everything can be satirized.