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" 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

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" I saw Sleater Kinney perform back when I was in college. "

" With comedy, I've always had a pretty good sense of what I like and how to execute it well, but drama has its own rules. "

" A lot of the 'Portlandia' characters and a lot of the moments aren't really TV-worthy, but that's what is so refreshing about seeing them. "

" I look at a show like 'Roseanne.' That's super influential on me. It's very funny, very real, with real problems. That was a big influence, and I don't know if you see that all the time in the network world. "

" 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.' "

" For me, I love and hate Costco. I think it's ruined America and made America great. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Internet is a good way to try some stuff with no big crew and no money being spent. Since there are no stakes to it, you can try to be a little experimental. "

" In Portland, it rains all the time - but who cares? That's not funny. That's not universal. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

" There's a thing in comedy where you take one step into a bad idea, but if you take 10, then it becomes a good idea again. "

" Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too. "

" Things that people are doing constantly but aren't thinking about. That's the ultimate 'Portlandia' concept. "

" There's a good family of actors in 'Portlandia.' It's a small community with people who pop up again and again. The show's a little weird show, and you want to grow with the people who are in it, like Dana who plays the chicken waitress, and Ellen who was the adult babysitter. "

" The end goal is to make a piece that everybody has ownership over and everybody's proud of because everybody contributed to it. I think there's a communist, socialist vibe to 'Portlandia' to make it work. "

" 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. "

" In your twenties, you might want to be radical and change the world, but in your thirties, you might just want to be happy and ground yourself. "

" 'Portlandia' is 100 percent improvised, and I came into this business not knowing anything. "

" A huge part of making something work is getting along with people you work with. You want them to succeed; you want them to bring their ideas to life as much as possible. "

" Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it. "

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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. "

" My whole thing is, you listen to the actor and help them bring out their best thing. "

" You see a lot of comedic content that's not funny, and you can tell that it's supposed to be funny, but it's actually not funny. "

" It's how you define yourself. It's not Nirvana or Pearl Jam: it's, 'Do you watch 'Portlandia' or 'Amy Schumer'?' It relates to a specific sense of humor. And, 'Do you know the hidden gems?' Like, if you knew the Pixies in the '80s. "

" I loved 'Welcome to the Dollhouse.' That was one of the most influential movies ever. You know that genre with the nerdy girl, and she redeems herself in the end. Like 'Napoleon Dynamite.' And in 'Welcome to the Dollhouse,' she doesn't. She sucks. It's like, that's what's real. That's what's heartbreaking. "