John Zorn Quotes

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

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

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

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

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.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

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.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

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

I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.

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.

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.