Steve Breen Quotes

I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Who is Mike Judge? Let me think. The only way I could possibly answer that question would be in a nonverbal fashion. I think I could do an interpretive dance that would answer that question for you.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

Humor is reason gone mad.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

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.

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

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

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

You can parody almost anything.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Everything can be satirized.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

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.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

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.'

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.