Buddy Hackett Quotes

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

Humor is reason gone mad.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Comedy comes from confusion.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

'The Importance of Being Earnest' is important, but it says nothing about anything.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.