Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

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

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

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

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

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.

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

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

Playing on stereotypes was meant to be humorous. If it doesn't tickle you in certain spots, it's not going to be funny. Falling down the stairs is a seriously dangerous thing, but watching it is HILARIOUS!

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.