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My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh. At least that's where everything starts, and then my other through line would be a dry absurdity that exponentially spirals out of reality.
Jonathan Krisel
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It's exciting being in the present. You're always reading emails, talking about the future, looking at pictures on Facebook of the past. But living in the present? It's almost a dead medium. I almost want to do a sketch about being in the present.
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Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too.
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I think when you work with people who are super exceptional, there's simplicity to it because everybody is on the same page in terms of tone.
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For me, I love and hate Costco. I think it's ruined America and made America great.
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I think any person who is starting out in a creative endeavor is not going to be good at it right out of the gate.
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Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.
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Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept.
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Everything on TV is perfect, and it's so boring.
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I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sure that's true in every family. But, for instance, one year, I came a little bit late to Thanksgiving, and I was supposed to bring a salad. And I just brought a bag of lettuce, and put it in a bowl. Five years later, I heard that my mom was incensed.
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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.
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I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don't know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies.
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