Mark Haddon Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

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

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

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

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.