Stan Laurel Quotes

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

It's very hard to write humor.

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.

People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it.

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

There are some extremely acceptable male comedians out there: Joel Osteen, Abraham Lincoln, the man who played Phil Spector in HBO's 'Phil Spector.' But even those guys, while insightful and amusing, aren't exactly funny.

Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.

Comedy is subjective, and any joke can be funny.

Comedy is just an unspoken language. Everybody understands it. Funny is funny. When it's not funny, they'll let you know.

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Good comedy is ageless.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

My films are comical films. They are made to laugh at. They are comical - and scientifically correct.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.