Sue Townsend Quotes

Tina Fey is a genius - I've seen it with my own eyes now. She's a very observant person, and I've never seen somebody write such a high volume or as quickly as she does.

Writing comedy is a superpower.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

I definitely think that comedy is my niche.

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.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms.

I don't write punch lines.

I recognise the pure gold that runs in Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin's work for 'Outnumbered' on TV. And on radio, I really enjoy John Finnemore.

I did a web series years ago where I helped write a kind of a spoof called 'Young Love.'

If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing sitcoms.

I'm a huge fan of comedy. I write material whenever I can.

I'd say that comedy is my God-given gift.

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.

I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

I've been a fan of Bob Odenkirk since he was on HBO originally with 'Mr. Show.'

It's a different world: when I'm writing 'Toast,' I've got one foot in 1974 and one foot in the modern day, because the modern day is nowhere near as funny or interesting.

'Portlandia' is 100 percent improvised, and I came into this business not knowing anything.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about, and that's really it. I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change, but I am far lazier than that.