Patrick Marber Quotes

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

I quite like dark humor.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

Meta-comedy is everywhere and always seems so cold and to me is really kinda snarky.

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

I like to laugh at dark things.

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.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself.