Matt Besser Quotes

I'd say that comedy is my God-given gift.

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

I definitely think that comedy is my niche.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

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

When you have a writing partner and you're writing a comedy, your goal is to make each other laugh.

I'm really bad at writing jokes.

Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.

Tina Fey is a genius - I've seen it with my own eyes now. She's a very observant person, and I've never seen somebody write such a high volume or as quickly as she does.

Writing comedy is a superpower.

What makes Broken Lizard, I think, is our timing.

I always think about my jokes as like I'm driving down a street, trying to go into all the culs-de-sacs along the way. I'm just taking a thoughtful, weird journey.

There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

I think I have always tried to connect my comedy to my art.

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

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

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