Dan Castellaneta Quotes

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.

I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

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 like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

I chose to stylize 'Among Friends' and add a dark comedic element because I didn't want to get pigeonholed as a genre director. I have a pretty dark sense of humor and knew that in order to get distribution, I had to do something in the genre for my first time out.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.

I'd say Jon Stewart has remained funny the entire time. Jon always makes it funny first. And he's just, he's talking about serious things, but in a funny way. Other comedians will talk about serious things in a serious way, and then you don't know what's going on.

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

Look at 'Batman' - that was theater of the absurd, as is 'Family Guy.'

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

As a comedian, I am attracted to truths that are uncomfortable. I like funny bummers.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

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'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities.

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

I don't think that 'No Man's Land' is a comedy. I think that it's a serious film with a good sense of humour.

I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

Loads of stuff that I've done has always had a hint of comedy. I did this show called 'Psychoville' that's a horror-comedy. Because I just think that's what life's like.