Moon Unit Zappa Quotes

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

I have a very dark 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 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.

I quite like dark humor.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

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.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

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

I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

I have a dark sense of humor.

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

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.