Limmy Quotes

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

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

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy.

I can find the worst thing in the world funny. My humour is dark. If I'm talking about the worst situations in my life, it's like a comedy - you can laugh at my pain.

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

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.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

You gotta keep the funny intact.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

There's nothing funnier than the human animal.