Charles Lamb Quotes

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

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

I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.

Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed 'Dr. Strangelove' as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.

I've been in situations where, in the midst of really hardcore events in my life, I made some ridiculous off-color joke that was in horrible taste, but made people laugh.

Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.

Tearing up a picture of the Pope comes under the heading of a Comedy Killer. It kind of breaks the spirit of the evening.

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.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I'm a fan of, like, the Coen Brothers, with the darker humor in it.

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