Raphael Bob-Waksberg Quotes

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.

You love 'Dragon Ball Z' for what it is, but when you really start to look at it, you're like, 'What the hell am I watching?' sometimes.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

I feel like with comedy, the crazy things that happen are never serious you know? Like, rubble being poured onto you in drama would be something that's absolutely terrible, but in a comedy it's absolutely terrible but so funny.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

That's part of the comedy, too, is we do have jokes throughout of hanging a lantern on the absurdity of the world. Like, when BoJack's flying over the neighborhood, you see some houses have swimming pools in the backyard, and what does that mean? Why would there be a swimming pool underwater? But we thought it was funny.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

I think absurdist humor is funny.

Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Humor is just truth, only faster!