Irvine Welsh Quotes

I've got Ferraris coming out me bum.

That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult.

'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.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

'W1A' is heightened naturalism, whereas 'The Windsors' is like the fever dream of a 'National Enquirer' reader.

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.

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

You can parody almost anything.

Everything can be satirized.

I think actors who take things too far are funny.