Absurdity Quote by Robert Hewison

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

— Scott Adsit

People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python…

— Julian Barratt

For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological…

— Harold Ramis

I love the humor of 'Monty Python.' I always remember being so impressed by how violent 'Monty Python' are, actually, when you look at…

— Miguel Sapochnik

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

— Eric Idle

Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.

— Richard Pryor

Sometimes, when comedians get success, they don't do as much weird stuff as they normally do.

— Thomas Middleditch

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

— Bob Newhart

I grew up in a bit of a vacuum. And as a kid, you see 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' and you're like, 'Oh, it's…

— Iliza Shlesinger

It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some…

— Jim Gaffigan

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist.

— Tim Allen

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this…

— Rowan Atkinson