Fred Tomaselli Quotes

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

'Irony' is such an over-used word.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

I like the irony in my work.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

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

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.