Wesley Morris Quotes

I love mockumentaries. When they're done right, they're really good.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

I'll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

I've always looked up to Amy Poehler and, obviously, people like Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Mel Brooks, and the 'Monty Python' guys.

I always refer to 'Blazing Saddles' or 'Young Frankenstein' as very much the kind of humor that I like to do.

I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

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.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

Chris Guest movies are funny.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

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.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies.

Look at 'Batman' - that was theater of the absurd, as is 'Family Guy.'

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

I don't really like comedy that gives you answers.

I've always liked outrageous comedy and pushing the envelope.

'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. You might say that the movie walks it like it talks it; I'm not sure what Pootie would say.

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.