Michelle Wolf Quotes

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

I start with the joke line and write backward.

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.

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

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

Melissa and I both say we don't write very good jokes.

Generating comic material can sometimes get the better of you.

Twitter is a good medium to lean how to write jokes. It pushes you to write a better joke in that, on Twitter, the first joke about something has already happened. You need to think of the second joke and the third joke.

Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.

Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or "My dad keeps losing his car keys." And then I just think of different ways the story could end. "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend." Then I try it out on stage. I don't do a lot of re-writing. My jokes either work or they don't. The trick is just to write a ton of jokes.

I would be jokesmithing. I had files with tons of disses that I would try to write as I was on the train going to school.

I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.

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

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

I definitely script things out. I definitely write things down and try to write jokes. Often, they're terrible. I often write terrible, terrible jokes.

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

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.

Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

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.

Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.

I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer, trying to construct jokes.