Jim Gaffigan Quotes

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

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

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I have a really dark, rich, thick 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.

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.

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

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.

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

I quite like dark humor.

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.

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

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

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

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

Humor is hostility.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.