Creativity Quote by Dave Rowntree

Rowntree is describing a very specific modern comic engine: dread as slapstick. Calling the episodes "mini horror films" isn’t just a genre nod; it’s an admission that the structure of horror is, basically, a joke with consequences. Horror depends on a small early mistake, a door opened, a warning ignored, a selfish impulse indulged. Comedy depends on the same thing, except the punchline is humiliation instead of death. He’s pointing to the shared skeleton: escalation.

The key phrase is "bad decisions early on". That’s a musician’s view of narrative, almost like hearing the first wrong note in a set and knowing the whole song is going to wobble. The subtext is anti-heroic and anti-moralistic: these characters aren’t cursed by fate or punished by some cosmic rulebook. They’re undone by ordinary human shortcuts - impatience, arrogance, denial - the stuff that makes for relatable watching and, crucially, guilt-free laughter. We laugh because we can recognize the impulse while staying safely outside the fallout.

"And that's what I find funny" is doing cultural positioning. It’s a refusal of prestige-drama seriousness, a wink at the audience who enjoys watching a plan collapse in real time. There’s also a slightly British, Blur-era sensibility in the detachment: not "these people deserve it", but "isn’t it fascinating how quickly things spiral once you commit to the first stupid choice?" The humor isn’t in violence; it’s in inevitability, the grim satisfaction of cause and effect accelerating like a snowball you can’t stop once it’s rolling.