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I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like it's crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like it's laughing. Nowadays, we would say, 'How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.'

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

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

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.