Alan Thicke Quotes

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

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

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

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.

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

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.