David Byrne Quotes

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

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

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.

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

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

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

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

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

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

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.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

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.