Charles Forsman Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

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

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.

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.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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

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

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

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

I have a very dark 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.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.