John Connolly Quotes

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

There's so much humor in serious things sometimes.

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be.

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

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

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.