Tao Lin Quotes

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

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.

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

As a comedian, I am attracted to truths that are uncomfortable. I like funny bummers.

When you're laughing aloud at David Sedaris' every sentence, it's easy to miss the more serious side of what he's up to.

The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.

Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.

The funniest thing about some people is that they have no sense of humor.

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.

We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.

He had the sort of face that makes you realize God does have a sense of humor.

Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.

You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.

There's only one thing wrong with my wife's face - it shows.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.