Black Comedy Quotes
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I love ‘Monty Python,’ ‘Black Adder,’ ‘Fawlty Towers.’ I’m a huge fan of British comedy (Black Comedy Quotes)
My comedy has no color, it’s for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It’s not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it’s just straight, wholesome type of humor. (Black Comedy Quotes)
Ever since the romantic comedy-drama ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee’s films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups. (Black Comedy Quotes)
When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn’t exist. (Black Comedy Quotes)
I set out to do a horror film with ‘Dog Soldiers,’ and what I came out with at the end of the day was something that was more of a cult movie, more of a black comedy with some horror elements in it. It kind of went over the top. (Black Comedy Quotes)
Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it’s a little eerie. I’d love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don’t know if I can do any better than that. I’d like to sort of forge new ground. (Black Comedy Quotes)
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy. (Black Comedy Quotes)
Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He’s one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people (Black Comedy Quotes)
I did this Super-8 film at art school called ‘Tissues,’ this black comedy about a family whose father has been arrested for child molestation. I was absolutely thrilled by every inch of it, and would throw my projector in the back of my car and show it to anybody who would watch it (Black Comedy Quotes)
Stanley Kubrick went with his gut feeling: he directed ‘Dr. Strangelove’ as a black comedy. The film is routinely described as a masterpiece (Black Comedy Quotes)
I love America and I hate it. I’m torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy (Black Comedy Quotes)
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material (Black Comedy Quotes)
My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was ‘Black Comedy,’ then he took me to see ‘Butley.’ We’d see all these British plays. And ‘Hello, Dolly,’ with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, ‘Gee, I would love to be able to do that.’ (Black Comedy Quotes)
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It’s the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play (Black Comedy Quotes)
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy (Black Comedy Quotes)
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors (Black Comedy Quotes)
Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it’s a little eerie. I’d love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don’t know if I can do any better than that. I’d like to sort of forge new ground (Black Comedy Quotes)
The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy (Black Comedy Quotes)
When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response (Black Comedy Quotes)