Trey Parker Quotes

If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

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.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

Don't you think it would be great to do a bunch of Nicorette commercials? Just, like, me in the desert, kind of Marlboro Man-style, driving a fast car, pulling over, looking at the sunset. Dissolving in ecstasy. Can't you see it? Me blowing huge Nicorette bubbles.

I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.

I almost wish we would've filmed a whole fake tampon commercial around ["I'm With Her"].

When I write 'Beetle Bailey,' I can always do jokes about him being lazy, and everyone gets it.

If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.

David Wain's character on 'Bob's Burgers' is really funny and silly and makes me laugh.

I think humor is such a personal thing, and you put a microphone in somebody's face, they're going to say something that offends somebody.

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.

The first time I heard 'Sharknado,' I thought it was a late-night infomercial for a new vacuum cleaner. Could have swore I ordered one once. Then I found out what it was and remembered that I grew up reading the 'Sharknado' novels.

I think the people that most often cross a line are comedians. I think they relish that, and take pride in that on some level - at least, from what little I've seen and understand about people that do stand-up.

I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.

Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.

People who like my stuff and know what my agenda is have never mistaken me for being racist or poking fun at the wrong thing.

The best comedy is based on truth.

Believe me, when I saw 'Family Guy' do the bit on 'Africa,' I howled laughing.

Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.

If you pick up a copy of 'A Better World,' you'll lose those last five pounds while saving a baby seal under a rainbow. I kid. It'll be ten pounds.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

I've made a lot of crazy comedy videos and said a lot of crazy things. If it's too offensive, I apologize and move on, but I do comedy.