Michael Caine Quotes

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

Stand-up has the best writers, because it's the hardest writing by a million miles.

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

It's hard to write a comedy sketch.

I'm very driven by writing. Coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' because it's such a writing job, and we all write our parts on the show and create characters, I'm so respectful of good writing.

It's a lucky life to be a playwright.

I have, for a few years, been writing comedy prose - short pieces for my blog - because I found it to be a good way to write while I was on a TV show. It was different enough from my scripts that it felt like a break, but it still was comedy and very fun. I like to do comedy!

Twitter is a good medium to lean how to write jokes. It pushes you to write a better joke in that, on Twitter, the first joke about something has already happened. You need to think of the second joke and the third joke.

I'm a big believer in comedy writers. I've always defended the honor of all comedy writers. It's extremely difficult, but I've always felt that comedy writers far more easily can move toward drama than vice versa.

A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.

I'm not sure what my material would have been if I'd have started earlier. I probably would have started with 'Damsels in Distress' kinds of films because that's the kind of comedy I was writing in college. So I didn't really have any life experience to work off of.

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.

My approach to comedy is that whenever it comes to me, I write it. With 'The Daily Show,' you have to write stuff every day, and that's a new experience for me, to not only write on someone else's schedule but a daily schedule.

I think writing in a group, even though it can be a challenge - you have to be on your toes all the time - is the way the best comedy gets written. It's very, very collaborative. A lot of comedy writers are definitely introverted nerds.

I find writing is the most fun I have in comedy.

Being a screenwriter for a comedy, you're writing for characters in them in their voice. I could write anyone.

Sometimes there were certain things in 'Limmy's Show' where I'd be having to come up with six episodes and as a result there was stuff in there that wasn't my favourite and I'd think, 'ach I'll shove that in this episode.'

The hardest thing to write is sitcom.