Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.
War makes strange bedfellows.
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness rapidly becomes trivial. And darkness without comedy rapidly becomes unbearable.
In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
Politics makes estranged bedfellows.
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.