Kelley Armstrong Quotes

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

I love irony.

Ironic things are interesting.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'm always the idiot. Unless you're just listening to buzz words and not taking into account the context of the situation, you see I'm always the ignoramus.

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

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

When you get the high art of William Shakespeare and the greatest love story ever told, and you collision crash it with the low art of the tacky garden gnome, you're going to have lots and lots of opportunity for fun and putting your tongue very firmly in your cheek.

The common thread of my comedy shows is conflict and, I guess, the frustration of people who either argue with you or just say stuff which is blatantly incorrect, and nobody calls them out on it.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

Who doesn’t want an exploding wicker chicken?

My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood.

See the ridiculous in everything.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy writer of all time. I think he would make a great addition to The Office staff. If you look through Chekhov plays there is a lot of awkward pauses in there. His mixture of pathos, absurdity, truthfulness and whimsy is just mixed together perfectly.

Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said.