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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. -- Bruce Campbell
I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening. -- Amanda Peet
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. -- Terry Pratchett
Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it. -- J.R. Ward
I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor. -- John Green
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure. -- Sigmund Freud
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. -- Daniel J. Goor

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