Natasha Leggero Quotes

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

I'm not really crazy about broad comedy. I like very possible, real situations that you might have found yourself in.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

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

I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

The original 'Scream' is one of those classic things, but it totally pokes fun at itself too. It's never taking itself too seriously, which is why I think it's such a cult classic.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

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.

I like all kinds of comedy. I like comedy that doesn't talk about real beliefs or serious thoughts, but then I also like the stuff that does. I think it just depends. It's a completely personal choice.

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.

I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.

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.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.