Lenny Bruce Quotes

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

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.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

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.

I quite like dark humor.

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

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

Man versus woman equals fun. Man versus man equals gay. Woman versus woman equals awesome. Man versus pillow equals crazy. Pillow versus pillow equals crazy awesome - that's a real pillow fight right there. You see two pillows fighting, you know something's going down. They're designed for relaxation. If they're fighting, what hope do we have? One time I saw two geese fighting, and I was like, 'This is a pillow fight ahead of time.

And I could always set Coach Hedge on fire,” Leo volunteered. “Then he can be fire.” The thought of a blazing satyr screaming, “Die, scumbag!” as he attacked Gaea was almost enough to make Piper laugh— almost.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

Humor is reason gone mad.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.