Amy Schumer Quotes

I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

I'm a fan of, like, the Coen Brothers, with the darker humor in it.

I always had a wicked streak in me, the sadist side in me also comes in my comedy films.

I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.

Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.

At its best, alt comedy can be challenging, surprising, and innovative. And at its worst, alt comics think that being awkward.com/FAQS is a substitution for punchlines.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

It's never a matter ever, ever - are - we're never trying to gross anybody out, or ever are we trying to shock people. We're just trying to make it funny in a way that makes the audience go, 'You know, that was the first joke they thought of, and they weren't afraid to do it.'

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

A big part of the humor is in identifying with the tragic elements of the film. The New Zealand sense of humor is very dark. Our films are usually very dark and it's always someone being killed. Usually a child.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

If I see my films described as 'quirky' or, even worse, 'snarky' one more time, I'm going to probably seriously consider an early retirement. All these years, I've labored under the conceit that they were "darkly humorous.'

What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.

I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say, 'That's so wrong!' And that's 'Family Guy' to me.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college.

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.