Mark Russell Quotes

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

President Reagan's one-liners were terrific.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He's irresistible to me. I mean, seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.

Whenever anybody is pursuing power, he's got to be funny.

Obama isn't funny.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

For comedy, timing is key.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

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.

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

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

Silences are the most underrated part of comedy.

I do love jokes.

To me, comedy is a game.

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

The secret to humor is surprise.

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.