Eugene Mirman Quotes

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

Everything can be satirized.

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.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

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.

When you have satire, it has to be real. No matter how outrageous the comedy becomes, you have to believe in the characters.

I'm ridiculous, I'm ludicrous.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

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.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

To remove all credibility from what you're saying try wearing sunglasses on your forehead.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

I came home, the car was in the dining room. "How did you get the car in here?" "Easy, I took a left at the kitchen."

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Make this man a saint now, OK?

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

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

You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.

I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself.

If you can see the handwriting on the wall... you're on the toilet.