Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

I'm a very funny man, so funny comes natural. And if you want to create horror, you need to be funny or campy.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

I like to write a lot of satire.

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

One of my favorite comedies is 'Shaun of the Dead.'

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.