Carole Radziwill Quotes

As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

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

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

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

The Giants beating the undefeated Patriots, that's all a joke. The star of a reality show is going to run the country. The guy who decided if Bret Michaels or Cyndi Lauper would make a better CEO for a company that doesn't exist is going to be running stuff.

Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense.

Jill Eisenstadt's comic second novel, 'Kiss Out,' is a work of such extravagant wackiness, eccentricity, and exuberance that any attempt to squeeze it into the confines of a simple plot summary seems doomed to failure and is possibly pointless.

When Andy Kaufman performed, he was not just trying to be funny. He was playing with the notion of what it means to try to be funny, of what it means to be an audience expecting somebody to be funny. He was doing a dance and playing a game.

Some things tend to parody themselves, and we don't need to do it very much. 'Survivor' is like that.

I think that the attraction to camp is its irreverence, it's strange, it in no way reflects reality while using real characters.

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.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

I've got an answer to where Osama bin Laden is and I know, he's dead and living in my suitcase with my dummies.'

It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

I don't know that you can do it as a satire. I mean, the business is crazy enough as it is. It's like doing Wag The Dog - we took a thing that was almost completely absurd on one level, and then ultimately those things came about.

I really enjoyed Merrill Markoe's Guide To Glamorous Living, which was a weird hybrid reality/sketch thing I wrote, directed, and hosted, with two male-model bimbos whom I made agree with everything I said.