Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

I can find the worst thing in the world funny. My humour is dark. If I'm talking about the worst situations in my life, it's like a comedy - you can laugh at my pain.

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

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She's found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that's pointing a finger or that's angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

I love dealing with drama. I'm drawn to the painful side of storytelling, more so. I feel like that's where you get the most honesty from. My laughter comes from irony. You laugh at my pain. I can't look for the laugh 'cause I'll fall flat on my face. I like the type of laughter that comes from irony like, "Of course, it's sunny today when I wore a mink coat!" I'm that guy. I was raised on Benny Hill and The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners.

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

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

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

Unfortunately this is where comedy works, where people are the most miserable.

Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

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

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

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

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

All people are sad clowns. That's the key to comedy - and it's a buffer against reality.