Robert Duncan McNeill Quotes

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

I tend to like dry humor.

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.

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

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

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

Sometimes, I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.

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.

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

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.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.