Justin Roiland Quotes

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

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.

I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

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

I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

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.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.

I love to play it. I think it's funny. It's always been funny to me. Somebody who's large and in charge but totally wrong-headed.

I always loved comedy growing up - Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye.

'Zoolander.' Yeah, I mean, I love Ben Stiller; he's just a brilliant guy. And I love Will Ferrell in it, too. His character, to me, is just insane, and he made such huge choices, and he's such a weirdo!

Comedy is a weird thing.

Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

I'm all about the slapstick, generally. If you fell off it, into it, or through it, I'm probably nearby wetting myself.