Jason Segel Quotes

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

George Lopez is always on the verge of hilarity. If he could ever think of something funny to say, if he had a funny thought in his mind, he's ready to go.

I love comedy, so you want to make them happy, make them laugh.

My humor is channeling everything through my brain. For example, when I talk about something, it's how Richard Lewis feels about it. I'm a storyteller. I do a lot of free association.

I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.

I don't write punch lines.

My favourite comedian, of course, is Tim Conway. He has a way about him - being that belly-laugh kind of funny, and he has the improvisational skills, too. I've never seen anybody better.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

We don't write jokes or anything, the furthest we'll go is we'll repeat certain jokes for the camera.

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

I love smart comedy.

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Comedy is king for me; it's the genre that everyone loves.

Gags die, humor doesn't.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

I'm fascinated by comedy.

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.