Limmy Quotes

I have a very dark sense of 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.

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

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.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

I quite like dark humor.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

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

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

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

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.

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

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

I have a dark sense of humor.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

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

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

One of the things I'll always remember from my time with 'Black Mirror' is the sense of all the tongue and cheek, and very, very dark sense of comedy there, too.

I have a sick sense of humor. Like, I'm always laughing at my own pain.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.