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

Jonathan Krisel

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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 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. "

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" I always want to push myself. "

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" Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out. "

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

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" Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" '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. "

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" Nobody sets out to be evil. They're insecure, and they make bad decisions. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" I love awesome mixed drinks. "

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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. "

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" I know comedy; I know how to do crazy, off-the-wall stuff that makes me laugh out loud. "

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

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