Ian Frazier Quotes

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

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

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.

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

I quite like dark humor.

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.

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.

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

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

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

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.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

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

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.

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

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.