Bryan Fogel Quotes

I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to be likable yet to remain removed. When I speak up, it's not because I have any particular answers; rather, I have a desire to puncture the pretentiousness of those who seem so certain they do.

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.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

David Sedaris is so good that it makes me mad.

I usually balance out autobiography with goofy, amusing stuff to help keep the humour in my more serious work.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

I don't just try to be funny.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot fight back. That is my limitation.

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.

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 I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

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

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

No one thought that the Disney Superpower had the ability to laugh at itself, but 'Enchanted' proved everyone wrong.

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.