George Carlin Quotes

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe.

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book.

I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life.

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

I have a great time touring.

I like life to surprise me.

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

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?

Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

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.

I love hanging out with kids and my husband - I love traveling with them. We can go on the most epic journeys in like five days.

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist.

Todd Solondz is a film maker I've always loved because of how he balances darkness, humour and surrealism in his films.

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.