John Grant Quotes

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

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

I love comedy. It's something that I think Marvel does so well, and it's one of the reasons I love Marvel so much is the quips that you get: that kind of underlying everything and cutting through the very heavy emotional stuff.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

I think I write funny songs that make people kind of, like, stop what they're doing and be like, 'What did you say?' And then it makes them laugh a little bit.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

Funny is when you're serious.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

You cannot have the drama without comedy.

There's so much humor in serious things sometimes.

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.

I think comedy can be a way of sugar-coating a pill that needs to be taken, and whatever I complain about onstage, I hope I justify the negativity by using humour to make the point.

'Sit Here and Cry' was one of the first songs I wrote with that overdramatic sarcastic dry sense of humor, which is why the energy of the song doesn't necessarily reflect the subject matter.

Sometimes, I use humor because I believe in revealing truth in a way that other forms cannot.