Erma Bombeck Quotes

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

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.

Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

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.

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.

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

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

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

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

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

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

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