Quotes About Absurdity

I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy.

Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.

There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.

The amount of silliness that happens to me is insane.

I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.

Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.

Hollywood is silly sometimes.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless

Nothing makes sense, why should I?

Needless to say, in a country where nothing makes sense only crazy acts do.

Shitting on a mouse is not expressly forbidden under California law.

The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful

You're becoming more and more deeply in debt to yourself, and you are already bankrupt. You look at yourself too much. That's the beginning of all absurdity. Look about you. The world is an interesting place.

Immediately he became convinced that all the cupboards in the house were full of pineapples.

Funnily enough, the sheer absurdity of owning a farm felt just as comfortable and wildly unpredictable as my drag gigs in nightclubs. I was excited again for the first time in several years. I had so many new dance steps to learn, so many new costumes to try on.

El amor es maravilloso y absurdo e, incomprensiblemente, visita a cualquier clase de almas. Pero la gente absurda y maravillosa no abunda; y las que lo son, es por poco tiempo, en la primera juventud. Después comienzan a aceptar y se pierden.

L'amour est merveilleux et absurde; et, étrangement, il visite toutes les classes d'êtres. Mais les gens absurdes et merveilleux n'abondent pas; et ceux qui le sont, c'est pour peu de temps, quand ils sont tout jeunes. Plus tard ils commencent à accepter et à se perdre.

desde el punto de vista lógico está más cerca de la verdad el que, lisa y llanamente, se pone a lloriquear bajo las estrellas, espantado por lo absurdo de la situación, que el que, dándoselas de heroico o de creyente en la historicidad, trata, a pesar de todo, de sacar adelante una familia, o de ganar la faja de honor de la SADE.

Sólo que Judas, Platero, es el diputado, o la maestra, o el forense, o el recaudador, o el alcalde, o la comadrona; y cada hombre descarga su escopeta cobarde, hecho niño esta mañana de Sábado Santo, contra el que tiene su odio, en una superposición de vagos y absurdos simulacros primaverales.

I got an A in philosophy because I proved that my professor didn't exist.

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense.