Ben Miller Quotes

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

Comedy is often about pain.

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

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

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful and true. But blurry as it may be, it is nevertheless unmistakable, and sometimes the laughter I hear makes me wince.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

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

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.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

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

When I was a playwright earlier in my career - my senior project in high school was my first produced play - I used to put on the title page: 'A tragedy with laughs.'

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.