Negative Humor Quotes

I don't like comedy that makes me feel worse about the world than I already felt before I turned it on.

The thing I have learned, especially in the Internet age, probably the easiest thing in the world is to declare that something is not funny. I mean it's not actually humor to say something is not funny, but it is viewed by a lot of people - and by that I mean mainly snarky young Internet men - as a kind of humor in and of itself is putting down other people's efforts at humor. And I don't care that much anymore about that because I know how easy that is to do.

I've never really loved mean comedy.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.

If you watch most of the stuff on TV and in movies, it's usually put-down humor. It's like somebody being mean or cynical or thoughtless to another person. I never wanted to be that type of comedian.

It's true that a smile can take years off a person - not that such a thing matters in Yoko Ono's case.

It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

I don't like aggressive humor or mean humor.