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Most of my ideas just come out funny.
It's never fun to read death threats.
Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.
I don't have a big hang-up about my body.
Funny people don't really laugh very much.
A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.
I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.
We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor.
Abbott and Costello were huge for me as a very young person.
The idea that everyone's opinion is valuable is sometimes up for question.
In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.
Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!
Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.
I sort of fell out of new music. I'm old, I like what I like, and that's that.
I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.
I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.
Most of the time, we write something and then figure out who would be best to do it.
There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.
There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained.
When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking.
There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.
Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.
I'll go to see movies, but I also love being at home on my couch and pausing every 10 minutes to pee.
When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.
I always liked records that didn't explain themselves too well - ones that you had to listen a few times.
That kind of language is what makes us laugh. Like, "Well, just eFax that to me, and I'll take a look at it."
I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.
I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.
When I was a kid I went to Catholic school, and they used to drag us out to pro-life rallies and stuff full of crazy people.
When you travel, specifically for our show, you get inspired by rest stops, Cracker Barrel. Middle-America people are perfect.
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks hardcore like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.
My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
When I was in college in Philly, there was a lot of post-punks... hardcore... like, rock. Sixties, retro, proto-Strokes kind of bands.
On movies, you have a lot of stylists that get things too pretty. Everything gets steamed and ironed. It's just not the way we really behave.
Everyone's heard the same joke a million times and knows the setups. They are tired of the mass-marketed entertainment served on the networks.
I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.
Nothing impresses the ladies like a clean, pressed pair of khakis and a large pattern shirt featuring either classic cars, mojitos or men playing golf.
When people come in to act on the show, we say, "Just be extremely dry and not funny. Let the idea be the joke." That holds true through a lot of our stuff.
Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.
I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.
There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.
Online piracy needs to be dealt with itself, because people are just wholesale stealing people's work and not paying for it. It's very hard to figure out a way to fix it.
I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.
At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.
I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers that I'm that interested in, in the comedy world. Everyone seems to be trying to play it safe.
In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.
We are making fun of stuff. It is subversive, I think, and in many ways political. It's a reaction against the society we live in, very much so. When we make a commercial for a product that doesn't do anything.
A good example of a lyric that makes me laugh but might not hit anybody right away is, "Sit behind the guitar and play the chords," just because it's such a lame image. It's not rock'n'roll at all to be sitting behind a guitar.
The scariest thing about screening a comedy... if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.