Mike Epps Quotes

I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.

People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

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.

I take a lot of pride in managing to be funny without having a victim at the end of my joke. I laugh at a really dark joke as much as the next person, but my jokes, I feel, don't have to hurt anybody to be really funny.

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

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

I'm not a joke guy; I'm not a stand-up comic.

It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

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.

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

I don't write punch lines.

The more real it is, the funnier it is. The more awkward it is, the more people are stumbly, the funnier it is. I like a sharp joke, but it has to say something that someone would actually say.