Del Close Quotes

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

I feel like with comedy, the crazy things that happen are never serious you know? Like, rubble being poured onto you in drama would be something that's absolutely terrible, but in a comedy it's absolutely terrible but so funny.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.

I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too.

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

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

All people are sad clowns. That's the key to comedy - and it's a buffer against reality.

I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.

That's what sort of fascinates me - what's funny as well as what's sad.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to add the tragedy to the comedy or a little bit of comedy to the tragedy in order to make them both feel more real to me.

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

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

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

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

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.