Steven Wright Quotes

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

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.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

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'm like a sight gag.

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

I don't really need to be dirty to be funny.

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

In the end, everything is a gag.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

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.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

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.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

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

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

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.

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