Julie Burchill Quotes

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

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

Humor is reason gone mad.

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

I can't not put humor in a book.

I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

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

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Funny is funny is funny.

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

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

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

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

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.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'