Brendan O'Carroll Quotes

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

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

Everybody loves good humour and in movies, we are in search of things that make viewers laugh.

It's a fine line between hack and good comedy.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

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

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective.