Jim Butcher Quotes

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

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

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

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Everything can be satirized.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

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.

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

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

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

I quite like dark humor.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.