Hasan Minhaj Quotes

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.

A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer.

I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.

It's very hard to write humor.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.

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

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

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

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.