Quotes from Jonathan Krisel

I am huge fan of Australian comedy. 'Strictly Ballroom' is one of my favorite movies. Definitely the British Commonwealth's sensibility is where I draw a lot of my influences.

Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That's what we do on 'Portlandia' all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything.

The end goal is to make a piece that everybody has ownership over and everybody's proud of because everybody contributed to it. I think there's a communist, socialist vibe to 'Portlandia' to make it work.

I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

I know comedy; I know how to do crazy, off-the-wall stuff that makes me laugh out loud.