Alex Borstein Quotes

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

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

I don't write punch lines.

Comedy can be a lot more fun if you try something unique.

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

The more life experience you have, the more comedy you can write.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

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

There's always a message in my comedy.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

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

My comedy is different than a lot of people's.

I'm not much of a joke writer.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.