Ben Stiller Quotes

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

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

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

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.

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

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

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 quite like dark humor.

I have a dark sense of humor.

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

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

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

If you like dry humor, Henrik Stenson thinks he's very funny, but I think I'm very funny in a dry sense as well.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

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

J. makes me laugh. He's incredibly dry and has a pretty harsh sense of humor that I enjoy.

I think my sense of humor is really dark and super twisted and stuff like that. It's like, "Is this a funny joke for real? Or am I just rich?" See? That was funny.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.