Gena Showalter Quotes

Great comedy is always sadistic.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

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

I love animals and they're very easy to look after when they're dead.

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.

Horror comedy - very rare in Bollywood.

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

The caustic style of 'Archer' was really on my mind when I was first doing 'BoJack' - perhaps too much!

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

I would love to be part of dark comedies. I love them! They are no-nonsense, no spoonfeeding, and the norms and cliches are left behind.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right

He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It had done nothing he had considered particularly entertaining, apart from emit interesting noises, and eventually, once the noises had stopped and the monkeys were no longer doing anything at all—except possibly on an organic level—had needed to be disposed of in the dead of night.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

Wish all my corpses would do that.