Matt Groening Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.

  Matt Groening

  Sex, Funny Sex, Comedy

• Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.

  Matt Groening

  Dark, Night, Views

• The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

  Matt Groening

  Nice, Ideas, Honor

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

• I think people who work in comedy and humor are hesitant to analyze it too much, because you feel like if you take it apart, you'll break it and not be able to put it back together again.

  Matt Groening

  Thinking, Together Again, People

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

• The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

  Matt Groening

  Stupid, Character, Trying

• Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

  Matt Groening

  Fiction, Comedy, Science Fiction

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