Nick Kroll Quotes

The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

I've actually done a lot of comedy.

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

I get verbal diarrhea in the writers' room. I just tell everyone a million anecdotes and stories and craziness, and we all double up on the floor laughing.

I love being in these ensemble comedy movies. I love working with a bunch of people and coming up with, you know, How can we make this moment funnier?

All I care about is making jokes that are funny and making people laugh.

Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a community of people, it's a great symbiotic relationship.

I used to write jokes with friends. We'd pick a topic and then think out loud, brainstorm.

People are either funny or they're not, and you can't teach that - but you can teach people to work together to make an idea better.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh.

The trouble with improv is that it is often about being funny in the moment without any real consideration for the bigger picture.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.

My primary responsibility is to be funny.

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

I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.

I just want to be funny, I just want to do comedy.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

Most of my ideas just come out funny.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.