Jimmy Carr Quotes

Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.

I also try to think of ways to articulate the joke more economically.

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

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.

I love songs because by nature they are concise; they sum up. I try to use as few words as possible. It's usually funnier that way, anyway.

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.

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

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

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

For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.

I always think about my jokes as like I'm driving down a street, trying to go into all the culs-de-sacs along the way. I'm just taking a thoughtful, weird journey.

I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.

I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.

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

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

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

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

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.