Richard Russo Quotes

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.

Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

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

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

The best shows to tweet about are the ones that are hilarious, but they might not necessarily be trying to be hilarious. Those are the easiest and the funniest because you're like 'come onnnn.'

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

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.

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

To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.