James Thurber Quotes

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

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

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain 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.

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

Every day, there's something that makes you go, 'Is this Funny or Die?' That can't be a real headline.

I don't write punch lines.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

I think if you have a funny thought, and you want to get off a funny point, try to do it as realistically as you can. If you try to act it funny and accent the funny points, or do it in a funny style, you kind of lose it.

Most of what I write is comedy.

I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.

Everybody loves good humour and in movies, we are in search of things that make viewers laugh.