Neil Simon Quotes

I quite like dark humor.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Humor is hostility.

I like to laugh at dark things.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

Everything can be satirized.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.