Phoebe Robinson Quotes

Comedy is subjective, and any joke can be funny.

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.

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

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

Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

I never have been able to understand where the humor comes from.

Comedy's really subjective, you know.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

I do love jokes.

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you either love us or you simply cannot see why people are laughing.

A lot of people don't think of my work as being all that funny, but I think it's hilarious!

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

I have no line. If I think it's funny, it's funny.

I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.

There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.