Seth MacFarlane Quotes

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.

If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.

I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.

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

I'm like a sight gag.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.

David Wain's character on 'Bob's Burgers' is really funny and silly and makes me laugh.

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

It's curious that apart from the baroque ranting, 'Sarah & Duck' is very similar to 'The Thick Of It' - great characters, excellent writing and lots of humor!

The nice thing about gag manga is how it has this aspect where, at the very least, you're permitted to come out with anything. In my case, anything can talk. Like the mountains.

That's part of the comedy, too, is we do have jokes throughout of hanging a lantern on the absurdity of the world. Like, when BoJack's flying over the neighborhood, you see some houses have swimming pools in the backyard, and what does that mean? Why would there be a swimming pool underwater? But we thought it was funny.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.

From the makers of Alien vs. Predator: Alien vs. Pingu. K9 - stop humping the toaster!

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

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

I loved 'SNL' growing up, and I would trick my babysitter into letting me stay up to watch it. My family would rent Marx brothers' movies and Monty Python episodes, and we watched 'In Living Color', 'The State', and 'Strangers with Candy'.

Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.