Donna Lynne Champlin Quotes

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

I often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it.

If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

Jane Austen is very amusing.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

The best bloggers have tongue planted firmly in cheek.

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

If the social evolution leads to jokes, I use them.

For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.

There's a certain kind of humour in Miley Cyrus' writing, and also a depth.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

I'm never happier when writing than when I see gags taking shape - ideally, gags at my own expense. What I like is the shuttling back and forth, serious into comedy and vice-versa, ideally, both in the same sentence, or even simultaneously. The best jokes are always ideas in miniature.

Woody Allen's 'The Complete Prose' - It's just the best selection of comic writing by one author. You know it's good comedy when you get quite demoralised about yourself.

The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break it down, the joke isn't filthy at all: it's clever.

please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

Jokes are unanswerable objections.

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle."

Puns are the highest form of literature.

I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so