Rachel Dratch Quotes

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

You can find humor in most things, and even terrible things.

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

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.

Humor is hostility.

Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it's always spontaneous. I couldn't write a comedy skit for someone else.

I've always found the world funny and enjoy laughing at it, and that's what all comedians do.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I don't really find things funny unless they're deeply tragic at the same time. I think if you're funny just for the sake of being funny, it's just frivolous nonsense. To me, all the best comic plays have been written about really serious and rather bleak things.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

A laugh is a terrible weapon.

For me, humor is everything!

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the darker the comic, the better. Something that is so wrong on all levels.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?