Blaine Lee Quotes

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

A joke is necessary at this time.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally the straight man, and the laughs generally come on the reaction of the straight man to the funny thing the other person has done.

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

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