Larry Wilmore Quotes

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

Funny is when you're serious.

It is only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.

I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.

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

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

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

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

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

I've heard too many times where people say that I'm this ultra-serious guy. In truth, I've got an extremely absurd sense of humor. I thrive on the absurd - I love it.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.

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

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.