Julian Barratt Quotes

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

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.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

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.

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

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

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

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

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

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

It's funny because it's funny.

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.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

Comedy comes from confusion.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.