Howard Jacobson Quotes

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.

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

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

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 have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

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

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

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

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

I have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

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

I quite like dark humor.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

I have a dark sense of humor.

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

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.