Chris Tucker Quotes

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

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

The best comedy is based on truth.

I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.

Comedy can be a lot more fun if you try something unique.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

The things that make me laugh are considered smart or whatever, I guess. But stuff that's self-consciously intelligent or self-consciously hip or cool, that doesn't do it for me either. You just try to be funny.

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.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

My instincts are not comedic.

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

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.

I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

I love smart comedy.

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

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

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

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a relatable situation and Bach it up.

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

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.