Black Comedy/Quotes
Quotes about Black Comedy
"Tragedy is when I get a paper cut. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
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"Do you know what's funnier than a dead baby? A dead baby in a clown suit."
—Traditional
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"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit would like to remind you that genital mutilation is no laughing matter. It is, however, an old vaudeville routine."
—Joel McHale, The Soup
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Actual Black Comedy
"We're gonna be corpses. Might as well be ridiculous looking corpses."
—The Captain, Pictures for Sad Children, #372
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Dr. Young: That's horrible. How can you joke about something like that? |
Yes, yes, Mrs Lincoln, but, apart from that, how did you enjoy the play?
—Salome Dear, Not in the Fridge (1968)
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