Tina Fey Quotes

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

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

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.

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

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

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.

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

I quite like dark humor.

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.

I can't tell you how hard it is to make a dark-humored movie in Hollywood.

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.