Sharon Horgan 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 like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

Loads of stuff that I've done has always had a hint of comedy. I did this show called 'Psychoville' that's a horror-comedy. Because I just think that's what life's like.

I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

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

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

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.

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

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

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

The really funny comedies to me are always the ones that are played the straightest or given the most emotional content. And when people start making faces and setting things up and commenting and winking at you, I don't find that to be very funny.

Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.

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

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

I like to watch and perform the kind of comedy that comes out of the situation - where the character is really serious and in a tough situation and doesn't realize that the situation is comic.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.