Absurd Comedy Quotes

I am interested in complex characters who are difficult and have numerous sides. But I would love to do a comedy role - something maybe 'Monty Python'-esque.

My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.

I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.

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.

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.

I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'

For me, I really love 'Tim and Eric' and 'Dr. Steve Brule' and a lot of the Adult Swim shows, so I like strange, weird, sometimes slightly upsetting humor.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

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

People used to make fun of alternative comedy because sometimes it would be someone being funny, and sometimes it was a crazy man with a flute making no sense. And it's very easy to be like, yeah, that's not really comedy.

I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.

I pitched Jay Hunt the opening scene (prime minister, middle of the night, he's woken up...). She paused, and then she laughed. She was very intrigued and all that, and then she said, "Does it have to be a pig?" So we went through various options: Could it be a supermarket frozen chicken? A giant wheel of cheese? A pig seemed just the right level of absurd, but then when he walks in and there's actually a pig there, it's awful.

Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.

The 'Tim And Eric' experience was very strange.

People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too.

The Goons were always one of our favourites; we always felt we were in that tradition - Goons, Monty Python, Peter Cook, Vic and Bob, Spike Milligan. We felt we were part of that lineage, but in England, it wasn't happening like that. There was a brand of comedy like 'The Office,' which was very real.

I don't think American family sitcoms are mean. I guess I really love 'Arrested Development.' I guess they are quite mean in that, but that is also a very silly, surreal, absurd show as well, and it has got a heart as well.

Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.

I'm not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy.

I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous.