Maurice Sendak Quotes

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I have a dark sense of humor.

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

I like very dry humor. I don't like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are nonchalant. I like characters that are sort of monotone and based in dark comedy.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

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.

I quite like dark humor.

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

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.

My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.

I kind of find humor in everything, even to the point where it's awkward - like, the worst scenarios are the funniest things ever.

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

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

I have an incredibly dry sense of humor.

The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.

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

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.