Nicholas Stoller Quotes

I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

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

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

I love nothing better than a dirty cartoon. I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

I guess the more serious you play something, if the context is funny, then it will be funny and it doesn't really require you to be necessarily, explicitly humorous, or silly.

I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

There's always a message in my comedy.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

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

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

Being a comedy writer gives you permission to be an outsider and poke fun at what people think about other people.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.