PSY Quotes

Woody Allen's 'The Complete Prose' - It's just the best selection of comic writing by one author. You know it's good comedy when you get quite demoralised about yourself.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

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

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

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

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.

What I love about comedy is that it's unquestionably working. There are varying degrees of that, where there's something that makes you smile and is funny versus something that makes you hysterically laugh.

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

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.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

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

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.