Seanan McGuire Quotes

I love the humor of 'Monty Python.' I always remember being so impressed by how violent 'Monty Python' are, actually, when you look at what they do. Terry Gilliam has a great way of kind of proposing violence.

Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. "For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

Cartoon violence is something very vivid and dark but made palatable for children in a fun way. That's the kind of comedy I do - I try to take subjects that might seem deep and make them as silly as possible.

I'm not really crazy about broad comedy. I like very possible, real situations that you might have found yourself in.

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

There's this weird kind of coming-in-from-left-field thing going on, and I love it - I am a huge fan of Christopher Durang.

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

In my comedy, I'm not always trying to say something, but when I'm playing a creepy dude, you're laughing because you know that creepy dude. You've heard that dude say something awful, and I'm just putting a little creative spin on it.

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

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

Horror comedy - very rare in Bollywood.

My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.

I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.

Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.

A hip-looking teen watches an elderly woman hobble across the street on a walker. "Grammy's here!" he shouts. He puts some MacAttack Mac&Cheese in the microwave and dons headphones and takes out a video game so he won't be bored during the forty seconds it takes his lunch to cook. A truck comes around the corner and hits Grammy, sending her flying over the roof into the backyard, where luckily she lands on a trampoline. Unluckily, she bounces back over the roof, into the front yard, landing on a rosebush.