Denis Leary Quotes

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

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

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.

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.

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

People find the humor in life all the time. And you have to in order to make it through real life. Like, some things are tragic, but you have to laugh.

I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

In my own mind, I can joke about anything.

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

I watched Master Class with Lorne Michaels on OWN. How can somebody produce a sketch show and talk for an hour and not say something even slightly amusing, or sarcastic, or ironic, or interesting, or informative? 'My mission as a producer is to encourage creativity.' Mission accomplished.

There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful and true. But blurry as it may be, it is nevertheless unmistakable, and sometimes the laughter I hear makes me wince.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

I had used my sense of humor; I had called it proportion, perspective. But perspective is distance.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.