Jeremy Renner Quotes

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

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

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.

I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say, 'That's so wrong!' And that's 'Family Guy' to me.

The more cerebral, slightly darker comedy stuff is where I love to live.

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot fight back. That is my limitation.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

What I love about the Coen brothers - what everyone loves - is that they sort of toe the line of a truly dark comedy.

I think Noah Hawley's writing is hilarious, and I love a good dark joke.

I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it.

My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.

My sense of humor lies a little closer to the middle.

I'm a fan of, like, the Coen Brothers, with the darker humor in it.

I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

I think everything needs to be played real, for reality's sake, for truth. And that is the drama and the comedy. When you do that, it's funnier. And when you do that, you really do hit the emotional beats. I do it the same way as I do a drama. I just play it for truth, and then maybe have a little bit of fun with it sometimes.

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope.

I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny.

I have a dark sense of humor, so I definitely like to work on stuff like that. I do enjoy working in comedies where I can create a fun and broad character.

Comedy is not pretty.