Joey Soloway Quotes

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

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

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

It's funny because it's funny.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

I love irony.

I can find the worst thing in the world funny. My humour is dark. If I'm talking about the worst situations in my life, it's like a comedy - you can laugh at my pain.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.