William Klein Quotes

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.

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.

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

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

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

I quite like dark humor.

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

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.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

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

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

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

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.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

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

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

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

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

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

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

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

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

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.