Joshua Ferris Quotes

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.

I think my goal has always been to remain entertaining. Above all else, remain entertaining.

Using humor as a wedge into different kinds of stories is my go-to. I think anything I do would have some sort of streak of humor in it.

You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me and once it's got its grips in you, there's nowhere to go.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

I want to entertain.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and laugh and remember we're only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh.

I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.