Black Humor Quotes

I've said things on Twitter that I've said deliberately because I think they're out of order, I think that's the sense of humour that I've got. I like saying things that I think are terrible, because it gives me a buzz.

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

I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?

Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people who believes it was the blacks.

I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead.

What's the difference between my wife and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.

Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.

I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

I have an incredibly dry sense of humor.

Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious.

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

I think my dad has a similar black sense of humour to mine, so perhaps it's just an inherited thing. I've got two little boys now, and I can see it with them as well. I don't know if you learn it off your parents - but my dad used to take me to see certain plays when I was quite young, so maybe that had an effect as well.

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

Coffin sales people would like to have a plague every year.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

I've paid attention to guys growin' up like Richard Pryor or Paul Mooney. The message that they were sending with what they did was so much bigger than them.

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

Hitler really wasn't so bad. In the black way.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.