Comic Perspective Quotes

I thought I had more of a European sense of humour than the average American comic.

I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

I think comedy can be a way of sugar-coating a pill that needs to be taken, and whatever I complain about onstage, I hope I justify the negativity by using humour to make the point.

Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a different attitude.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

See the ridiculous in everything.

Life is a joke that's just begun.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.

I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told the story, obviously. I wanted it be comedy first, because I felt like there already had been childhood druggy stories that were very serious, and I felt that the unique thing here was that I was a comic and I could tell the story with some levity, and I have been laughing at these stories my whole life.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.

Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

I feel like there is something about having a copacetic world POV that helps in making a comedy. Like, David Wain has such a particular way of looking at the world. It helps when everyone can see behind his eyes, you know?

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

In comedy, you see yourself as a newcomer and then you realize you've been doing it for 18, 20 years, which is ridiculous.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

Obviously, my stuff has been more in the comedy realm, and I really believe that if I'm laughing behind the camera, then I think the film will be funnier.