Nico Santos Quotes

With all comedy, you try to ground it in credibility and reality.

I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.

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

I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

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

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

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.

Things from real life are the things that get people laughing.

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

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.

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

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

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

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.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.