Tim Minchin Quotes

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

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

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

Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.

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

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

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.

There's an art to comedy.

Everybody I know is a joke writer.

I don't write punch lines.

I'm not the comic innovator that Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy are. I can't just come out with an incredible line.

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

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

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

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

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

Comedians play off of social commentary.

Comedy is all about rhythm and context, and there's all types of comedies, and it's about finding that right brand, that consistency in tone.

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

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

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