Geoff Dyer Quotes

There's depth in my comedy.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there.

Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that's awesome.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it's just trying to entertain you with thoughts and ideas from my crazy mind!

I think the best dramas are as funny as possible and the best comedies have, underneath them, real substance.

You can't deny the truth. And that's what makes smart comedy so good.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

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

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

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.

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

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

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

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

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

I think comedy has to be very fearless, or it just gets bland.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.