Erik Griffin Quotes

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

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

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

I like funny things, but I don't find myself particularly funny.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

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 have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

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

Funny is funny.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

I think comedy has to be very fearless, or it just gets bland.

Funny is funny is funny.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

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.

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.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

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