Making Light of a Situation Quotes

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

A lot of the times, anything that somebody tries to say negative is actually kind of funny.

Whenever dark things happen in my life, there is always some dark humour.

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.

I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

There's a thing in comedy where you take one step into a bad idea, but if you take 10, then it becomes a good idea again.