Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

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

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.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Humor is reason gone mad.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

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

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

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