Phil Elverum Quotes

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

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.

I can't not put humor in a book.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

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

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.