Michael Scott Quotes

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

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

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Comedy comes from confusion.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

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

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

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

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

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

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Funny is when you're serious.

It's funny because it's funny.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

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?

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.

Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within.

Ironic things are interesting.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.