You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.
Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.
When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.
The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.
My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'
When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and probably untrue claim - that we were the first generation of kids to act black.
I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead.
One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.
I'm an old school cat. I'm a fan of Richard Pryor and also Redd Foxx.
I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.
I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'
Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.
Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?
Nurse: "Doctor, the man you just gave a clean bill of health to dropped dead right as he was leaving the office". Doctor: "Turn him around, make it look like he was walking in."
I've got a sick sense of humour, a dark sense of humour. I do care about things and care about people but there's another side to me.
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.
