Jim Butcher Quotes

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.

I've made a lot of crazy comedy videos and said a lot of crazy things. If it's too offensive, I apologize and move on, but I do comedy.

Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.' I'm sure he meant that as a compliment.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.

I'm a very funny man, so funny comes natural. And if you want to create horror, you need to be funny or campy.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

Comedians play off of social commentary.

I'd do an exercise video because there are so many gay men with these perfect abs and they do exercise videos. So I did an exercise video where my stomach looked like my water's about to break.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about all the lovely things that there are, which I do see as well - but there is a lot of outrageousness around, slightly covered up. And obviously, it's fun to take that a little bit further.

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.

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

I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire.

I think comedy is a genre that has a lot of potential. It is a very content-driven film genre.

Comedy can do so much more than make you laugh.

I just knew it would get a big laugh when people saw the 'Flying Nun' throwing the bird to a highway patrolman.

I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop laughing that they just took something in that's going to start a conversation.

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

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

The 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' book was printed in every free country in the world, OK? Now, it's so good in its way that we can go in and make fun of it and feel good about it.

The secret of comedy is enjoying it. If you're not laughing, it's not going to be funny.