Nahnatchka Khan Quotes

Comedy is such a personal thing. Everybody can cry at the same thing, but it's a lot harder to get everyone to laugh at the same thing.

Comedy is subjective.

Humor is a very personal, subjective thing.

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

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

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.

Funny is funny.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.

There's an art to comedy.

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

Most of what I write is comedy.

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

Music is never inherently funny!

Writing comedy is a superpower.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

Comedy's really subjective, you know.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.

For comedy, timing is key.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.