Ken Kesey Quotes

Look at 'Batman' - that was theater of the absurd, as is 'Family Guy.'

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

She doesn't quite chop his head off. She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.

Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.

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

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

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

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.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

One of the things I'll always remember from my time with 'Black Mirror' is the sense of all the tongue and cheek, and very, very dark sense of comedy there, too.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

I love the humor of 'Monty Python.' I always remember being so impressed by how violent 'Monty Python' are, actually, when you look at what they do. Terry Gilliam has a great way of kind of proposing violence.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

Louie Anderson thinks my thing is the absurdness of reality. That's what we do on 'Portlandia' all the time. I try to bring that absurdness of reality to everything.

I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.

A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.

If life wasn't real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

Man versus woman equals fun. Man versus man equals gay. Woman versus woman equals awesome. Man versus pillow equals crazy. Pillow versus pillow equals crazy awesome - that's a real pillow fight right there. You see two pillows fighting, you know something's going down. They're designed for relaxation. If they're fighting, what hope do we have? One time I saw two geese fighting, and I was like, 'This is a pillow fight ahead of time.

I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.