Lee Hall Quotes

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish 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.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

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

I quite like dark humor.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

I kind of find humor in everything, even to the point where it's awkward - like, the worst scenarios are the funniest things ever.

I like to laugh at dark things.

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.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

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.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.