Noel Wells Quotes

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

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.

It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

What all my favorite comedians have in common is extraordinary honesty.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I don't take myself too seriously.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

I'm not trying to teach anybody anything, I'm not trying to say anything, I have no political motive whatsoever. My motive is just the big laugh.

I don't just try to be funny.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

I love that I can tell the truth and have people laugh at it.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.