Gallows Humor Quotes

A good hanging now and then -- that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.

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.

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.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

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 must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

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.

It's not funny when you actually get shot, but afterwards, yeah, it's funny.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

Come on up, boys -I'm dead.

I kind of find humor in everything, even to the point where it's awkward - like, the worst scenarios are the funniest things ever.

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

Funny stories on set - there are thousands of them, but they are only funny to the people who were on the movies. You start to have inside jokes and gallows humor. You have all kinds of things you laugh at, but as soon as you tell somebody, the joke falls flat because they don't know the context of it.

One of the things I'll always remember from my time with 'Black Mirror' is the sense of all the tongue and cheek, and very, very dark sense of comedy there, too.

I have a sick sense of humor. Like, I'm always laughing at my own pain.

I feel like I've always had a sordid sense of humor, and it's only gotten more twisted as I've gotten older.

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.