Zach Galifianakis Quotes

Everything can be satirized.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

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 a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

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

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

A lot of French comedy is satire.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

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

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

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.