Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

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

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

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

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

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

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

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

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

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

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

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

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

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

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

I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

I love irony.

Ironic things are interesting.

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

I think that life is very dark at times and there are things that are very funny about that.

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