Frankie Boyle Quotes

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

Great comedy is always sadistic.

Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

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.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

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.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.

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 have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

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

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

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.

The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.