Rodney Dangerfield Quotes

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

You can parody almost anything.

Everything can be satirized.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

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.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

The Rock was one of my favourite comedy characters growing up, and I still think he is. Mainly because he took himself so seriously by being ridiculous and a buffoon all the time but always took the high status.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about all the lovely things that there are, which I do see as well - but there is a lot of outrageousness around, slightly covered up. And obviously, it's fun to take that a little bit further.

Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That's what we do on 'Portlandia' all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything.

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 springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.