Lorrie Moore Quotes

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

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

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

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

I have a dark sense of humor.

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking; when he's joking, I think he's serious.

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who is a joke a minute.

To deliver something deadpan is very difficult; I don't think people know how hard those jokes are.

It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

I have a sick sense of humor. Like, I'm always laughing at my own pain.

Earnestness makes British people gag.

I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags.

I have a very sardonic view of life.

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’m a ridiculous person. If you take anything any comedian says seriously, then you’re stupid.

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

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.