Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in an absurd kind of theater.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.
Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.
I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.
To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. [In a letter to Frederick the Great]
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.
Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.
This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.
Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits...
