Joan Rivers 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 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 like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

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

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

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

I can't speak for everyone, but the kind of comedy that makes me laugh are the ones that kind of make me cringe, and kind of make me look inside my own fears, my own anxieties.

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

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

We are just the most twisted, sick, hilarious people that I know.

My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.

Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.

Any tragic memory I have I also think is really funny. On any given day, I can think about how horrible something is and also how ridiculous and over-the-top it is.

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

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

I like to laugh at dark things.

There are very few topics where I can imagine that you might not find humor. And I was stunned at how much weird and dark humor there was when my mom died.

My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

The Carells are huge fans of comedy. To get in there and see how sick and twisted their mind is is fun to do.

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

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'm a massive Roald Dahl fan. I grew up reading his work and see a recurring theme - I have continued to love stuff that mixes the gruesome with a sort of humour. I'm drawn to that in my work.