Bruce McCall

“My stuff is about the absurd pretending to be true, and that's what I find in real life, too.”

“I’ve always felt that the best way to get a laugh is to do it with a straight face.”

“Satire has to be plausible to be funny.”

“The future isn’t what it used to be.”

“I'm drawn to the pompous and the ridiculous.”

“The world is a very strange place, and the only way to deal with it is to make it stranger.”

“Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.”

“My idea of a good time is a new set of felt-tip pens.”

“I just follow my obsessions.”

“Parody is a high-wire act.”

“The automobile is my favorite subject.”

“The 'New Yorker' was the Vatican of magazines. To get in was a miracle.”

“I was born in another century. The 20th. I'm a man of my time, and that time is past.”