Jim Butcher 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 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.

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

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

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.

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

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!" Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something?

Ghost of Bobby: no, no you can't eat me. I'm a ghost. Stephen Colbert: That just means that there's less bones to pick out.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

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

Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting.

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

I quite like dark humor.