Stephen Fry Quotes

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

Sex is pretty funny, let's face it. And the more seriously we take ourselves, the funnier sex gets, I think.

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Puns are a form of humor with words.