Robin McKinley Quotes

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

Everything can be satirized.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

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.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

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.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.

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

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

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.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

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 just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.