Phoebe Robinson Quotes

Any joke can be funny, but not any joke is funny. Any joke has the potential to be hilarious to you, but more importantly, the joke has the potential to not be funny to you but to someone else.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

There is a universality to comedy.

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

Everybody loves good humour and in movies, we are in search of things that make viewers laugh.

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

You know, funny can be universal.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

I do love jokes.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

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.

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

Funny is funny.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.