Jordan Peele Quotes

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

Cartoon violence is something very vivid and dark but made palatable for children in a fun way. That's the kind of comedy I do - I try to take subjects that might seem deep and make them as silly as possible.

It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn't mean it can't be unnerving. Think of 'Fawlty Towers'; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it's funny. The two things are not in opposition.

To me, the best comedies get a little dark, and the best thrillers are a little bit funny. So I'm not exactly sure where I draw the line between the two.

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.

I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

I'm working on 'Buffy: Deep Space Nine'. It will be dark and badly received.

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

You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim.

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.