Brandon Sanderson Quotes

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

'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.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

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

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.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

My instincts are not comedic.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

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.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.