H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

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

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

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.

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.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Life is such a tragicomedy.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

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.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

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

You can parody almost anything.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.