Chris Rock Quotes

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

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.

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.

I quite like dark humor.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

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

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

I kind of find humor in everything, even to the point where it's awkward - like, the worst scenarios are the funniest things ever.

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

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

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

I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

You gotta keep the funny intact.