Quotes About Irony

It's funny: here I am, a guy who plays in one of the world's biggest classic-rock bands, and to tell you the truth, I listen to classic rock the least.

I'm a cliche.

I am a comedian: that means I laugh at things other people don't laugh at and also annoys my wife sometimes.

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

You see a lot of comedic content that's not funny, and you can tell that it's supposed to be funny, but it's actually not funny.

I actually see comedy in death.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

Show me a novel that's not comic, and I'll show you a novel that's not doing its job.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

It's ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now they like it when I shout and scream.

It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.

England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.

Even things like Abba - I think it's always got a dark, subversive element to it. You've got these four blonde Swedish people singing about their relationships breaking up while they're all going out with each other.

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

Comedy is a downward slicing sword sometimes, looking down and laughing at people.

I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.

The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.

I love power ballads and the earnest lack of irony and emotion that exists in '80s music, along with synth guitars, of course.

what do you do with a man who is supposed to be the holiest man who has ever lived and yet goes around talking with prostitutes and hugging lepers? What do you do with a man who not only mingles with the most unsavory people but actually seems to enjoy them? The religious accused him of being a drunkard, a glutton and having tacky taste in friends. It is a profound irony that the Son of God visited this planet and one of the chief complaints against him was that he was not religious enough.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.