Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

Jokes are grievances.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

I don't think it's ever easy to be funny. I find it easy to amuse myself with a certain sort of cynical dark humor that tends toward the meaner side, like my character in Happy Gilmore. Those kinds of characters come easily to me.

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.

"I warn you," the boy went on. "I am a magician of great power. I control many terrifying entities. This being you see before you" - here I rolled my shoulders back and puffed my chest up menacingly - "is but the meanest and least impressive of my slaves." Here I slumped my shoulders and stuck my stomach out.

A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags.

I wanna be funny, but if I have a chance to make a point while being funny - why not?

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

I actually have a pretty good sense of humor.

Let's just let funny people be funny.

You can't deny the truth. And that's what makes smart comedy so good.

I loved humor. I had that in me.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

And I think comedy obviously a great way to get a message out because you know the reason why things are funny is because they're true.

We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.

I love irony.

I kind of find humor in everything, even to the point where it's awkward - like, the worst scenarios are the funniest things ever.

I'm a sarcastic, observational storyteller.

Ironic things are interesting.