Victor LaValle Quotes

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

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

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

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Satire is focused bitterness.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

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

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

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.

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.

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

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.