Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.

I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close to each other, and it's how you handle it tonally. But I'm an equal opportunity offender. I'm happy to go at anything that has a cause to be laughed at.

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

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

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

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

I like really bad puns - proper, red-top, nasty puns - I find them funny.

Woody Allen's 'The Complete Prose' - It's just the best selection of comic writing by one author. You know it's good comedy when you get quite demoralised about yourself.

The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing offensive, but the truth is that most humor originates in what would be called bad taste.

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

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

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

It's very hard to write humor.

I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.

Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

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

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?