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I quite like dark humor. -- Marina and the Diamonds
I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.' -- Leslie Mann
That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek. -- El-P
I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously. -- Art Alexakis
I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me. -- Ben Stiller
I love dark humor. I love things that are so grounded in life, but just happen to be just a little bit twisted because my sense of humor is a little bit twisted. I love jokes that shouldn't be funny, but are. Those types of things just really make me laugh. -- Rockmond Dunbar
Bob Saget was known, in the comedy clubs in those days, as extremely funny but with dark humor. It was always an inside joke among comics, when he got Full House, it was, like, wow, hes playing this all-American dad kind of thing. That was not Bob Saget. His comedic style is definitely more twisted, and he has an edgier side than he showed in Full House. -- Bob Saget
I like the way that Dexter mixed humor, dark humor and tragedy, in a way I don't think that I've seen another show do. To handle those tonal shifts with so much confidence. Normally, you can mix humor and dark humor, you can mix dark humor and tragedy, but to mix all three... There are just moments with Robin and Reuben, the next door neighbors, that are just funny. -- Jane Espenson
I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say, 'That's so wrong!' And that's 'Family Guy' to me. -- Elena Satine
Man makes plans . . . and God laughs. -- Michael Chabon
I have a dark sense of humor. -- Olivia Munn
I have a very dark sense of humor. -- Andy Dick
If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged -- Terry Pratchett
Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint -- Brent Weeks
I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor. -- Inga Muscio
I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful. -- Stephen J. Cannell
Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person. -- Peter Steele
The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set. -- Eric Bana
Brits have a better sense of humor in most ways. It's darker, more cutting. -- Stephan Pastis
I can't tell you how hard it is to make a dark-humored movie in Hollywood. -- Michael Lehmann
I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place. -- Twyla Tharp
I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus. -- Anne Lamott
Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor. -- Margaret Cho
Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments. -- Matthew Weiner
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. -- Maurice Sendak
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor. -- Alan Moore
It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk. -- Robert Bloch
I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value. -- Amy Schumer
In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness. -- Greg van Eekhout
I do dark [humor]. I like people who are silly and weird and people who are surprising and good at what they do. -- Anthony Jeselnik
A difference in self loathing? Please. The only difference between a gun and a rope is the time it takes to tie the knot. -- Justine Larbalestier
A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot. -- Brian P. Cleary
Bomb', Reyes said, not bothering to look up. 'One of ours?' Maddox insisted... 'Hardly. I know better than to blow myself up,' Reyes sighed. -- Gena Showalter
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. -- Nicolas Cage
I was very strict on that point. No devouring classmates." Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Other parents warn their kids not to talk to strangers. I had to warn mine not to eat them. -- Kelley Armstrong
Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at something inappropriate with their whole bodies, a guttural, visceral laugh beyond a mere "hah." -- Anthony Jeselnik
I really like dark, politically incorrect humor. -- Marina Abramovic
Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life. -- Brett Gelman
My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark. -- Marina Abramovic
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor. -- Michael Buble
My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu. -- Kirby Wright
Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it. -- Ronald Perelman
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that. -- Ice Cube
He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died. -- Thomas Love Peacock
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors. -- Bill Forsyth
I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters. -- Dan Chaon

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