Jeff Baena Quotes

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

Comedy is all about the pause.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

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

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a relatable situation and Bach it up.

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

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 prefer situational or character-based humor to gross-out gags and comedic set pieces.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

Comedy is very difficult. You've got to have a perfect sense of timing.

Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

For me, comedy was deftly terrifying.

I'm not into comedies that are joke-driven.

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.