Michael Che Quotes

Joy Behar... Is never even funny accidentally.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

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.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

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.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

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

When I'm playing comedy, I never do 'jokes.' Sometimes I'll deliver a line in a way I think is more likely to get a laugh, but all the best comedy is played straight. What's funny is the way it hits the world around it or the way it hits the other characters.

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 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.

Gags die, humor doesn't.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

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

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.