Jim Parsons Quotes

It's very hard to write humor.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

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.

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do that.

I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff.

I guess I don't have much interest in writing straight drama. So whatever subject matter I choose will ultimately be dealt with in a comic way.

It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.

I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

Comedy has lost its eloquence.

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.