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. Jonathan Krisel Read Quote
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. Jonathan Krisel Read Quote
I like dry-to-the-bone stuff. I don’t know what it is. I was raised on PBS showing weird British comedies. Jonathan Krisel Read Quote
Fawlty Towers’ was a huge influence on me. I mean, it was so slapstick, too. ‘Are You Being Served?’ was on 15 times a day, it seemed like, and I loved it. Jonathan Krisel Read Quote
My dad did show me interesting movies at a young age. I remember he showed me ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ and my mom said, ‘I never want to see this movie in my house again.’ Jonathan Krisel Read Quote
I went to film school, and I came in when video art was king, weird stuff was king, and there, you don’t have a script as your bible. Jonathan Krisel Read Quote
Certain shows, when it’s all comedy, it’s like when you eat something that’s too sweet and it just tastes gross. You need that salted caramel. Jonathan Krisel Read Quote
Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That’s what we do on ‘Portlandia’ all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything. Jonathan Krisel Read Quote
I always look at ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail.’ They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. ‘Why don’t we just change it to coconuts?’ That’s part of my process. Jonathan Krisel Read Quote
