Tom Wolfe Quotes

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

Comedy is just honesty. Whether things are going well or bad.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Caricature is rough truth.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting.

Different things made 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.

I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.

Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.