O. R. Melling Quotes

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

Laughable

It's such a smart decision for comedy to not try to be relevant or contemporary.

Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline.

When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.

I go to the grocery store with my wife. She goes off to buy something. Where is she, anyways? So I ask the manager, 'What aisle do they keep the wives in?'

I don't know how to troll people, but there are many out there talking with that intent. I just write something funny that would make people laugh.

I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.

Comedy can be very deep sometimes.

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

It's hard to make a joke out of someone that's a joke.

Of course, my whole theory of comedy is based in reality. The funniest stuff comes from real life.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

McDonald's released a new video showing how it makes their Chicken McNuggets. Apparently it turns out that McNuggets aren't made out of chicken. They're made out of people who ask too many questions.

Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.

If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?

How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.