Libba Bray Quotes

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

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

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

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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.

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

Humor is reason gone mad.

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

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

Life is such a tragicomedy.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

'Anchorman'... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

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

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

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

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

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

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

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

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.