Florence King Quotes

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being 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.

I quite like dark humor.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

I try and write satire that's well-intentioned. But those intentions have to be hidden. It can't be completely clear, and that's what makes it comedy.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Meta-comedy is everywhere and always seems so cold and to me is really kinda snarky.

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

You can make bleak things funny but if you're glib about it, it doesn't work.

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

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

I love irony.

I would love to make a sarcastic film; I am so sarcastic that even my kids are now getting used to my sarcasm. You see it a lot in British comedy because that's their sense of humour.

I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.