Beeban Kidron Quotes

Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to "the serious." One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.

I hardly ever swear. So when I do, my husband knows it's extremely serious.

It's tough making people laugh, as we have so much going on in our lives. We forget to see humour as part of everything. The same thing translates on screen, too.

I think for us - and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan - we definitely like ruffling people's feathers and poking fun at organized religion a little bit.

I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the ground. If they start taking themselves too seriously, they're heading for a fall.

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.

One can be serious about the frivolous, frivolous about the serious.

A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not so much as the people who spend all their lives constructing joke palaces think you do.

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

If you find a saint who has no sense of humour, then he is not a saint at all. Impossible. His very seriousness says that he has not achieved. Once you have some inner experiences of your own you become very playful, you become very innocent, childlike.