Eric Andre Quotes

As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world's pain and escape it.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

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

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

I think the funniest stuff comes from the heaviest stuff.

Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

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

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

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.

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.