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I like really stupid comedies.

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

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

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny.

I like idiotic comedies.

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.

Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.

Humor is reason gone mad.

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.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

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.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.