Jackie Mason Quotes

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

Comedy just comes naturally, so I've always gravitated to comedy.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

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

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

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

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

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.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

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.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

Comedy is second nature for me.

The best timed joke or the best timed phrase comes at spontaneous moments and just relies on me as the host to be very quick, and that's what I do.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.