Henri Bergson Quotes

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

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.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

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

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

I love irony.

Ironic things are interesting.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

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.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

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.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

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.

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

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

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

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.

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.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.