Shawn Crahan Quotes

Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.

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

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

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

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

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We're okay with making somebody feel uncomfortable or uneasy.

I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.

'Danger Girl' can be ridiculous, but sometimes it's funny.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

I've always loved absurdism and plays of that genre. I think that my humour is very much rooted in theatre and drama.

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

I'm not a big 'scripted comedy' person necessarily. I'm open for wherever comedy can be found.