Julian Barratt Quotes

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people enjoy comedies that have a heart and soul to them.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

I like really stupid comedies.

I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

Jason Lee made me laugh all the time because he's so big, and I love how goofy bodies can be.

There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.

I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

I like idiotic comedies.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.