Jane Lynch Quotes

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.

You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

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.

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

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

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

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.

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

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

Different things made 'Cheers' and 'Frasier' special. Both of them, though, were honest. It was the old Shakespeare thing: Hold the mirror up to life.

Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.

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.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I don't think I'm complicated at all. I'm not political, and I'm not trying to be diplomatic. I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, and I don't say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There's no trying to fool somebody.