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Quotes About Irony

I had a tumor. But it was great.
~ David Rakoff
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.
~ David Hyde Pierce
These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
~ David Mitchell
My uncle Jimmy took liver salts twice a day for 40 years. He died on Sunday, was buried Wednesday and the following Friday they had to go to the cemetery to beat his liver to death with a stick.
~ Frank Carson
Comedy is rarely funny.
~ Dov Davidoff
My ex-boyfriend can round last night, which was weird because I didn't know he was in a coma.
~ Jo Brand
The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.
~ John Green
Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.
~ Gena Showalter
Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.
~ George Carlin
Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.
~ Gilbert Gottfried
He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.
~ Henny Youngman
I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.
~ Jason Gann
British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me.
~ Jason Sellards
By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.
~ Jemima Kirke
Cancer is always funny.
~ Jim Gaffigan
The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.
~ Jimenez Lai
If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you see okay?
~ John Mendoza
Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!
~ Katharine Hepburn
How the hell do you wake up dead?
~ Kevin Hart
Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.
~ Lewis Black
Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart
~ Maggie Stiefvater
A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.
~ Margaret Atwood
... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.
~ Margaret Deland
My way of looking at the world is that if it is true, it is funny and it is dark. No matter how dark it is, I just think it is funny. I can't help it.
~ Maria Semple