Ken Dodd Quotes

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

Everybody's funny in different ways.

With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

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 one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.

Anybody can go onstage and be dirty. You have to be funny, that's the key. You can say anything as long as it's funny. You can't take it too seriously up there. And people coming to see you can't take it too seriously.

Good comedy is ageless.

I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny.

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

It's funny because it's funny.

I do jokes about what's funny, and both sides are funny.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.