Tucker Max Quotes

If the writing is good, then the writing is already funny. All you have to do is make this funny writing true to the very deepest of your heart, and the fact that you are capable of making this true will be hysterical.

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide, early on, to not be precious about it.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

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.

The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

I never told a joke in my life.

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

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

I strive for honesty because I think that's where the funniest stuff comes from.

One doesn't have to resort to cheap imitations of characters or people around you to make others laugh. At least, that is what I've always believed in.

I think for me the trick is not to aim to impress or to even try to make people laugh but instead to tell the truth.

You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there because I really love it, and it makes people happier.

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.