Stewart Lee Quotes

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

Life is such a tragicomedy.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

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

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

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.

I don't think it's a contradiction to find painfulness funny.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.

Pain is funnier than love.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.

Comedy is only funny when there's real pain.

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

A lot of joking stems from a very dark place a bit.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.