Jane Birkin Quotes

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

A joke's a very serious thing.

I think any decent comedy worth its salt has to have heart, otherwise it's just a bunch of jokes. I think people enjoy comedies that have a heart and soul to them.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

I do love jokes.

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

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

Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.

I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters.

We do not take humor seriously enough.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

I love my jokes.

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

I love smart comedy.

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well.